Women In The Media

A rounded, young girl hunches over the toilet that is covered with her body fluids. Sweat covering her forehead with her pieces of hair caressing her round face, hurling and vomiting. Her breakfast, lunch, and dinner filling the toilet in front of her. Her body fluids dripping from her mouth, she places her finger inside her mouth again. The words “fat” and “ugly” fill her head as forced tears squeeze out her eyes. She just wants to be beautiful – beautiful like the girl in the magazine. Depicting women with tight, thin waists and thin arms and legs were not popular now, but popular throughout history. This “standard of female beauty” can start during the 19th century, a century where women had tiny waists and large “bustles” (Derenne). Later, the invention of the corset began to become the trend of the 20th century. However, instead of dresses, they …show more content…
Well, Kamberg claims, from the National Institute on Media and the Family, that seventy-eight percent of teenage girls decline. Why, you may ask. The answer is the media. As young girls grow into their teenage years, the media continues to bloom as a “significant role in the development of identity” (Frith and Mueller 35). It is said that these “3,200 young women…feel that ‘being pretty and thin’ was the ‘most important thing’” (Bawdon). The reason that those young, teenage girls – those seventy-eight percent – are unhappy with their bodies is because these girls are “influenced of pictures of impossibly skinny women” (Bawdon). Magazines, television, or any digital-type media demonstrate unrealistic images of women with these “‘ideal’ bodies” that are difficult to reach (Kamberg 8). It should be understood that these teenagers are undergoing puberty – “a time…most likely to compare themselves to others” (Kamberg 18). Nevertheless, this time is critical for adolescents when media sends unachievable beauty standards that can cause disastrous