The Fight Against Media’s Body Image
The Fight Against Media’s Body Image
When most people think of eating disorders they tend to think of young teenage girls with their bones popping out of their body. Most people never think about how those teens get the idea of an eating disorder. It just doesn’t happen overnight with one bad dream, but always being bombarded to look good, to try the newest diet, to look good for a dream man are the causes. It’s from magazines and TV shows that are showing very thin girls getting everything they wanted in life. Most of those magazines photographs are touched up, girls have hours put into their hair and makeup to look that perfect. That is one thing that most young girls know but don’t realize. Show business needs to change their way of thought about beauty and bring in more natural looking girls and use a lot less Photoshop.
Some studies show that boys and girls think closely about the media forcing them into thinking about dieting and this then encourages them to have an eating disorder. According to Z. Lawrie, E. A. Sullivan, P. S. W. Davies and R. J. Hill study called, “Media Influence on the Body Image of Children and Adolescents” boys are unsure / disagree that the media portrays a message of a slimmer and more muscular body, where the girls agree that the media inspires to have a slimmer body. Now the boys disagree / strongly disagree that the media try’s for gained weight. The girls on the other hand disagree / strongly disagree that the media inspires them to gain weight. They do agree with the boys that the media does not influence them to be more muscular.
When people think of teens with eating disorders they hardly ever think of boys but boys too have eating disorders more so than they did 20 years ago. There are many studies out there showing that boys too have eating disorders. In the study called, “Relations of Eating Disorder Symptomology with Perceptions of Pressures from Mother, Peers, and Media in Adolescent Girls and Boys”
When most people think of eating disorders they tend to think of young teenage girls with their bones popping out of their body. Most people never think about how those teens get the idea of an eating disorder. It just doesn’t happen overnight with one bad dream, but always being bombarded to look good, to try the newest diet, to look good for a dream man are the causes. It’s from magazines and TV shows that are showing very thin girls getting everything they wanted in life. Most of those magazines photographs are touched up, girls have hours put into their hair and makeup to look that perfect. That is one thing that most young girls know but don’t realize. Show business needs to change their way of thought about beauty and bring in more natural looking girls and use a lot less Photoshop.
Some studies show that boys and girls think closely about the media forcing them into thinking about dieting and this then encourages them to have an eating disorder. According to Z. Lawrie, E. A. Sullivan, P. S. W. Davies and R. J. Hill study called, “Media Influence on the Body Image of Children and Adolescents” boys are unsure / disagree that the media portrays a message of a slimmer and more muscular body, where the girls agree that the media inspires to have a slimmer body. Now the boys disagree / strongly disagree that the media try’s for gained weight. The girls on the other hand disagree / strongly disagree that the media inspires them to gain weight. They do agree with the boys that the media does not influence them to be more muscular.
When people think of teens with eating disorders they hardly ever think of boys but boys too have eating disorders more so than they did 20 years ago. There are many studies out there showing that boys too have eating disorders. In the study called, “Relations of Eating Disorder Symptomology with Perceptions of Pressures from Mother, Peers, and Media in Adolescent Girls and Boys”