Female Body Image
Growing up I always wanted to be my own person, from choosing what clothes I wore, to trying to wear my mother's make up. As I started growing older, everything changed, I looked up at the TV one day and saw skinny models looking radiant down the runway. I remember telling myself "I want to be just like them." They were everywhere, on magazines, TV, and billboards. I have never been a size 0 but after seeing that all the girls on the media were so skinny and "perfect" my goal became to look just like them so I could get the same attention they got. It seemed that in order to get attention and acceptance you needed to look a certain way. As an adult now, I have witnessed the tragic effect that appearances on the media have on people. They try
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When writing my essays I will focus on providing information from case studies, articles, and psychologists. These will provide support to the arguments that I will be presenting, and elaborate on the importance of the issue. Having background knowledge based on the amount of reading I have done on this issue I will use case studies such as "Why Don't I Look Like Her? The Impact of Social Media on Female Body Image" by college student Kendyl M. Klein focusing on the impact media has on the female population. This research also talks about the psychological effects and disorders media has caused. I can also look into articles like "Self Imagine Media Influence- Just Say Yes" which describes how not only are women are influence by media but how men also are. It shows connections to both genders and explains how the issue is universal not just about one sex. It centers on the negative impacts of society, and how ruin society is if we pressure someone to fulfill unrealistic expectations of beauty. For my research I'll search on websites that can be related to the effects of media shaping appearance views in society. I can go into research about how well a healthier lifestyle is promoted that allows people to know the difference between looking like the images on media and having a healthy body. I will be referring to personal experiences to sympathized with the audience and draw attention to my main points since I can relate to what some of the people who are influenced by the misconceptions of their appearance because I see it every day, not only in magazines, but in the students I work with on a daily
When writing my essays I will focus on providing information from case studies, articles, and psychologists. These will provide support to the arguments that I will be presenting, and elaborate on the importance of the issue. Having background knowledge based on the amount of reading I have done on this issue I will use case studies such as "Why Don't I Look Like Her? The Impact of Social Media on Female Body Image" by college student Kendyl M. Klein focusing on the impact media has on the female population. This research also talks about the psychological effects and disorders media has caused. I can also look into articles like "Self Imagine Media Influence- Just Say Yes" which describes how not only are women are influence by media but how men also are. It shows connections to both genders and explains how the issue is universal not just about one sex. It centers on the negative impacts of society, and how ruin society is if we pressure someone to fulfill unrealistic expectations of beauty. For my research I'll search on websites that can be related to the effects of media shaping appearance views in society. I can go into research about how well a healthier lifestyle is promoted that allows people to know the difference between looking like the images on media and having a healthy body. I will be referring to personal experiences to sympathized with the audience and draw attention to my main points since I can relate to what some of the people who are influenced by the misconceptions of their appearance because I see it every day, not only in magazines, but in the students I work with on a daily