Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Body Image
We live in society that body image is more important than health. Today they are many women and girls want to lose weight which most of the time unhealthy weight loss. For example; fasting, skipping meals, excessive exercise, laxative abuse, and self-induce vomiting. The reason that so many women and girl so oppose with their body is the great impact on this situation is that the media has huge influence in their lives. The way the advertising things, skinny models, and the pictures on magazines, newspaper etc. they have a big different when we compared between men's magazines and women's magazines. Those women’s magazines have ten and one-half times more ads and articles promoting weight loss than men's magazines do. Also over three quarters of the covers of women's magazines include at least one message about how to change a women's bodily appearance by diet, weight loss products. I don't think most women's do become skinny for their health. I think most of them they do this because they have some low self-esteem, and the commercials drive them crazy with many skinny models that frustrated them, and make them to do something with their body. I also think that makes it worse for them because they want to fit the way that societies think is perfect body. They compare them self with others which is bad because everyone has different body and that the way should be anyway. This makes me think do people live for themselves or for others? It’s good to have an average body mass but not to become out of control and ugly. Loving, caring, eating health food is nothing to do with becoming super skinny trying to make people love just the way you are without doing any harm to your body...............
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i'm really glad that i saw this blog, i dont think people understand what goes on with health and the race to be skinny..... as a young woman in my 20's i have FINALLY relized that i will never be a size 2, nor will i ever weigh less then 150lbs, and i can happly say that im okay with that, and i don't care anymore what people think, i love my body and i truly belive that a real woman should have curves and hips and a "booty"... im greatful that i figured this out for my self and i hope more and more woman will soon just give up on thw whole skinny thing and just be real....
ReplyDeleteYes; most of the time people don’t think about their health they just think that to become skinny and to fit what the societies think is good body weight for them which is so disappoint. Anybody should love themselves first if anyone wants them to respect them as whom they are which it has to start from them “You teach how people treat you”. Also everyone has different body shape everyone can’t be a size 2 just because some star is that size. I believe everyone should be ok with the body they have as long as they are health and comfortable with their body and my recommends will be just do some exercises not too much and try to eat health food.
ReplyDeleteI think it is not far how much we want to look like the supermodels. So many femailes do not understand that these women look like that because of luck. Majority of the female population does not look like that, obviously, or we would all be in Victoria Secret's magazines! People should embrace what they have and if they are not happy with what they look like, it is ok to lose weight but do it properly. Eat better and exercise. I know the results are not as fast as diet pills, laxatives, or anything like that, but at least you would be healthy enough to enjoy the results not in the doctor's office or hospital with some other type of complication.
ReplyDeleteIt would be a difficult task to derive a correlation coefficient between advertising and mass media. The two terms are often used interchangeably due to their codependence, even though there definitions’ differ considerably. Media refers to the tools or technologies used to store and transmit the data, whereas advertising is the communication tactic employed to persuade potential customers to consume the product or service. Basically, “advertising is the foundation of mass media”. According to Jean Kilbourne in Killing Us Softly 3, “the average American views 3000 advertisements a day, and spends 3 years of their life watching television commercials”. Companies with rising technology not limited to computer retouching, are doing whatever it takes to sell their products. They are breaking socio-cultural bounds and hiding behind the first amendment. Evidence in the documentary suggests that they try to “sell us what we don’t need, to sell us values, and to sell us concepts of normal”. All these concepts and strategies in the long run do more harm than good, with considerable cumulative effects.
ReplyDeleteSociety has defined what beautiful is through the influence of the media. It has also drawn a line and made it apparent that it’s a man’s world, even though we are in the twenty first century. Advertisers use sex, power and gender as their blueprint to sell their product. The notion of “sex sells “goes to women who are branded as “temptresses, seductive, sexual easy, submissive, and dependent. Women are depicted as objects and not subjects and “tolerant victims of male violence”Killing Us Softly 3,( 2002). Men on the other hand are depicted as powerful, in control, aggressive and independent. The movie and major selling magazines like Cosmopolitan, Vogue, just to name a few, never feature women over the age of thirty-five unless they are trying to sell anti-ageing regiments. Even then, their images are airbrushed so that they “have no lines, wrinkles, scars, blemishes and certainly no pores”(killing Us Softly 3). The message is, if you are not young, beautiful and thin, then you are not to be loved by the societal standard.