Persuasive Essay On How Thin Is Too Thin
How thin is too thin?
Liz Harten
We see them everywhere we go. While in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, on line in the grocery store, on our coffee tables and in our mailboxes. Magazines will always be around and will always convey the same messages. “Get pretty now”, “How I got thin”, “and 25 new diet secrets”. Are you trying to tell us were ugly and fat? Big shot magazines may not be trying to tell us that but it is the idea the young teenage girls have in their heads.
There are so many major women’s magazines out today; all of them have been sporting the same messages for years. In 1984 Glamour magazine put a survey out to women asking them about their body image. The first of its kind it brought back some pretty shocking results. 75% of women thought they were too fat, 60% of women …show more content…
Seventeen starts off their mag with 7 strait pages of advertisements, Cosmo Girl! Had 12 and Teen Vogue, though less ads in the beginning makes up for it with one on every other page of their magazine. That’s a little ridiculous don’t you think? These ads are all covered from top to bottom with underweight women and oiled up, muscular men. They send out an image that if you want to be as happy as I am in this picture then you have to look like this, that in order to look like this you need to buy this product. And teenage girls do.
It’s the photos clearly that are what make girls so badly about themselves. They see perfect retouched models and believe that that is what they should look like. Unrealistic as these pictures may be we can’t help but to want to look like that. In a survey given to 20,000 teenage girls “70% said that magazines strongly influenced what they thought was the ideal body type”. You’ve seen all of these before we walk past them everyday where exactly are the negative influence? It’s easier to spot than you think. Let’s look at some quotes from the covers of 3 popular women’s
Liz Harten
We see them everywhere we go. While in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, on line in the grocery store, on our coffee tables and in our mailboxes. Magazines will always be around and will always convey the same messages. “Get pretty now”, “How I got thin”, “and 25 new diet secrets”. Are you trying to tell us were ugly and fat? Big shot magazines may not be trying to tell us that but it is the idea the young teenage girls have in their heads.
There are so many major women’s magazines out today; all of them have been sporting the same messages for years. In 1984 Glamour magazine put a survey out to women asking them about their body image. The first of its kind it brought back some pretty shocking results. 75% of women thought they were too fat, 60% of women …show more content…
Seventeen starts off their mag with 7 strait pages of advertisements, Cosmo Girl! Had 12 and Teen Vogue, though less ads in the beginning makes up for it with one on every other page of their magazine. That’s a little ridiculous don’t you think? These ads are all covered from top to bottom with underweight women and oiled up, muscular men. They send out an image that if you want to be as happy as I am in this picture then you have to look like this, that in order to look like this you need to buy this product. And teenage girls do.
It’s the photos clearly that are what make girls so badly about themselves. They see perfect retouched models and believe that that is what they should look like. Unrealistic as these pictures may be we can’t help but to want to look like that. In a survey given to 20,000 teenage girls “70% said that magazines strongly influenced what they thought was the ideal body type”. You’ve seen all of these before we walk past them everyday where exactly are the negative influence? It’s easier to spot than you think. Let’s look at some quotes from the covers of 3 popular women’s