Female Body Image and the Mass Media :: Womens Body Image

Perhaps no time in history read body image standards had such an enormous impact on society. With immediatelys mass media people can be subjected to thousands of images and messages daily, portraying the rarefied body image. The people most often portrayed and effected by these messages are young women. Females can feel constant pressure to stop up to these ideals which are most often unattainable. This pressure can elbow grease detrimental physical and mental states. To fully understand this problem we must(prenominal) first ask ourselves, Why? Why has the female body been pushed to the header of society and media? It is undeniable that it is merely a marketing ploy. The beauty heavens is a multibillion dollar a year indus undertake. Companies such as Revlon, stay Girl, Maybelline, LOreal insist that girls must look a certain centering if they want to be anything. These corporations are only concerned with the bottom line. They instruct no responsibility for the negative image that they portray, in fact, that is what they thrive on. The worse self-image a woman has, the more beauty products she will buy to try and improve her looks. And there is no better way to make her theorize she is ugly than to subject her to thousands of unrealistic, airbrushed pictures of ensamples to compare herself to. This way of thinking is further bore into the female mind through womens magazines such as Cosmopolitan, manner and so on. Never do you find an obligate entitled heavy(p) is Beautiful. More often you will find How to lose 20 lb.. so your man will love you sprawled across the overfly of the modish issue. Occasionally magazines will run a heart touching article about an ex-models fight with bulimia. They will often forget to mention, however, that the same model was portrayed as the pinnacle of health and beauty on the cover of last years April issue. The beauty industry and magazines are not the furbish up cause of the problem though, there is plenty of blame to go around. And so we look to Hollywood. The cardinal rule in movies and television sex sells. When you argumentation into to watch Friends on Thursday night you will not implement one leading lady (or any ladies for that matter) with a waist over size six. The only imperfect characters in the show are the fatty tissue ugly guy and fat ugly lady who live across the street and are the objects of constant ridicule.