Beauty standards are taking over our nation and it is time for us to take notice if we have not already. For example, social media like magazines, television and the internet lead us to think that we need to have a certain type of body. In Patricia McLaughlin's "Venus Envy" and Claire Suddath's "An Open Letter" both authors talk about how beauty standards are taking over the world and how ridiculous they can become. One major beauty standard these days would be the pressure for both men and women to have a slim, healthy looking body because of how society believes that this concept is 'perfect'. A slender body is sought after by almost everyone in the world but it can be impossible to achieve, which can result in negative outcomes due to the
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Not only because of how people would like to see us, but to signify that we are healthy as well. This concept is especially directed towards women since they usually want to have a thin body. One thing that creates stress for women are the size charts made for them. The sizes for ladies are in single and double digits while for us men, inches are used instead. This is shown by this quote, "Do you think women will feel paranoid if we suddenly go from a single to a double-digit number?" (Suddath 203). For men, we are not that concerned about our size unless we want to be healthy, although, there are some men who, "... are having plastic surgery to get rid of their love handles and tighten their eye bags and beef up their chins and flatten their bellies..." (McLaughlin 168). Trying to have the ideal body is difficult for women and men alike when that standard of beauty is impossible to …show more content…
Both men and women may go to the extremes to lose weight, like developing eating disorders. People believe teenage girls are the only ones who suffer from eating disorders, but it's happening with men also. "Because eating disorders virtually always start with a "normal" desire to lose weight and look slimmer, the increase among men suggests that men are worrying about their looks more than they used to." (McLaughlin 169). One well known eating disorder is anorexia and this disorder happens when someone thinks they are overweight when they really are not. Most people with the disorder would eat small portions of certain foods and most times, make themselves throw up any food that they just
Not only because of how people would like to see us, but to signify that we are healthy as well. This concept is especially directed towards women since they usually want to have a thin body. One thing that creates stress for women are the size charts made for them. The sizes for ladies are in single and double digits while for us men, inches are used instead. This is shown by this quote, "Do you think women will feel paranoid if we suddenly go from a single to a double-digit number?" (Suddath 203). For men, we are not that concerned about our size unless we want to be healthy, although, there are some men who, "... are having plastic surgery to get rid of their love handles and tighten their eye bags and beef up their chins and flatten their bellies..." (McLaughlin 168). Trying to have the ideal body is difficult for women and men alike when that standard of beauty is impossible to …show more content…
Both men and women may go to the extremes to lose weight, like developing eating disorders. People believe teenage girls are the only ones who suffer from eating disorders, but it's happening with men also. "Because eating disorders virtually always start with a "normal" desire to lose weight and look slimmer, the increase among men suggests that men are worrying about their looks more than they used to." (McLaughlin 169). One well known eating disorder is anorexia and this disorder happens when someone thinks they are overweight when they really are not. Most people with the disorder would eat small portions of certain foods and most times, make themselves throw up any food that they just