Assignment 4
September 15, 2008 squirrel17
I went to google and googled it and was a little bit amazed at the results and at the same time I knew they would be bad. I looked into media effects on social groups and this paper was a real eye opener. It talked about how media influenced what women wanted to be. Its so surprising that these trends are going on and are encouraged. As a teenage girl I know that I have felt the sting of looking at some other girl and thinking why cant i look like that, but i have never thought beyond that. The fact that some of these women not girls but women who know better are shoving their finger down there throat or not eating at all is absurd and all this is because the women on TV and in magazines are rail thin, cosmetically enhanced and airbrushed. I would think women who suffer from this and have a family tend to have a very stressful life with trying to make everyone happy and only digging herself in a deeper hole.
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1. phsenglish12&hellip | September 17, 2008 at 1:39 am
It’s amazing that anorexia and bulimia are no longer just problems with teen girls; grown, mature women are suffering, as are many boys and young men. The race for the “perfect” body is a dangerous one. Trying to eat a healthy diet and get sufficient exercise is a good idea; starving and exercising to the point of collapse are not. I’m glad you realize the difference between reality and the images the media portrays as reality.