Unrealistic Body Image
Janae Harris
Mr. Larma
English 11 CP Period 6
February 21st, 2013
For years the media has portrayed the body images of many women and men as unrealistic in comparison to society. They have depicted the current body image as flawless skin, slim waists, enlarged muscles, exotic features, large chests and butts. The image that the media has sold to society has changed the culture of the youth, especially for young women. Magazines, television shows, movies, and clothing ads, have convinced the younger generation to have bodies like celebrities or digitally edited models. The media has contributed to a false sense of body image due to sociocultural factors, such as unrealistic media images of flawless beauty.
Young females are more prone to …show more content…
Only the beautiful, thin, or muscular, and attractive, are able to prosper in today’s society according to the media. The role models given to this generation are, celebrities and pin up models. These people fit the criteria we are supposed to be. The media teaches people every day to idolize the people who are the ideal image and strive to be like them. Society needs to move away from our appearance-obsessed culture and not rely on the media to tell what every person should look like. The media has contributed to the false sense of body image by encouraging pretentious methods to accomplish an impossible image given to society that no person is able to be.
Works Cited
Ana R. Sepúlveda and María Calado (2012). Westernization: The Role of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders, Relevant topics in Eating Disorders, Prof. Ignacio Jáuregui Lobera (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0001-0, InTech, Available from http://www.intechopen.com/books/relevant-topics-in-eatingdisorders/westernization-the-role-of-mass-media-on-body-image-and-eating-disorders
Daniel Clay, Vivian L. “Body Image and Self Esteem Among Adolescent Girls.” 2005 Nov. 1 Feb. 2013<http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/jdellarovere/files/body%20image%20%26%20media.pdf>.
Flippa Hamilton. “Size 4 Model: I was Fired for Being Too Fat.” 14 Oct. 2012. 1 Feb. 2013
Mr. Larma
English 11 CP Period 6
February 21st, 2013
For years the media has portrayed the body images of many women and men as unrealistic in comparison to society. They have depicted the current body image as flawless skin, slim waists, enlarged muscles, exotic features, large chests and butts. The image that the media has sold to society has changed the culture of the youth, especially for young women. Magazines, television shows, movies, and clothing ads, have convinced the younger generation to have bodies like celebrities or digitally edited models. The media has contributed to a false sense of body image due to sociocultural factors, such as unrealistic media images of flawless beauty.
Young females are more prone to …show more content…
Only the beautiful, thin, or muscular, and attractive, are able to prosper in today’s society according to the media. The role models given to this generation are, celebrities and pin up models. These people fit the criteria we are supposed to be. The media teaches people every day to idolize the people who are the ideal image and strive to be like them. Society needs to move away from our appearance-obsessed culture and not rely on the media to tell what every person should look like. The media has contributed to the false sense of body image by encouraging pretentious methods to accomplish an impossible image given to society that no person is able to be.
Works Cited
Ana R. Sepúlveda and María Calado (2012). Westernization: The Role of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders, Relevant topics in Eating Disorders, Prof. Ignacio Jáuregui Lobera (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0001-0, InTech, Available from http://www.intechopen.com/books/relevant-topics-in-eatingdisorders/westernization-the-role-of-mass-media-on-body-image-and-eating-disorders
Daniel Clay, Vivian L. “Body Image and Self Esteem Among Adolescent Girls.” 2005 Nov. 1 Feb. 2013<http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/jdellarovere/files/body%20image%20%26%20media.pdf>.
Flippa Hamilton. “Size 4 Model: I was Fired for Being Too Fat.” 14 Oct. 2012. 1 Feb. 2013