The author is a woman named Geetanjali Gunanathan. She attended Smith College back in 2010 and wrote the article, “Media and It's Affect on Self Esteem”. She is a bit of a heavier set woman and to my knowledge has only written this article. This article can be credible based on her own opinions and by her reputable college. But, she loses that credibility with only one of her sources existing and it is on self-esteem of a teenage girl in everyday life which would fit her thesis, but doesn’t fit her article. Gunanathan has written this article because according to her, ”The media is making teenagers feel that if they don’t look a certain way they aren’t beautiful, which could cause some teenagers to because very depressed with low self- esteem.”
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Then you as the person in her scenario feel unattractive due to something on tv and think of taking diet pills instead of eating your ice-cream. Gunanathan then says that this happens to teenage girls a lot. She starts to say girls want to be stick thin and that it is makes them feel bad when they cannot be. Gunanathan says this is all due to the media. She says that the women they want to look like most of the time don’t even exist and are just photo shopped to look perfect. She says the average woman is 130 pounds not 110 pounds like people assume. Gunanthan then makes the point that teenage girls shouldn’t diet unless their doctor says to. She then presents the results of this body dysmorphia as bulimia and anorexia. She explains that they can cause serious health problems. She ends her article with a picture of a skinny model that weighs 110 pounds and a picture of larger women that are 130 pounds and ask who looks …show more content…
I enjoy her scenario on the average teenage girl and that her next paragraph explained its use. Then, the article starts to bash models and says that media causes girls low self-esteem and depression. It gives no proof of this and the next paragraph starts. Gunanathan starts in with valid points about how the media Photoshop’s women to make them look perfect then immediately comes back to the weight of the girls. Once again in her last paragraph she comes back to weight saying “a teen should not be dieting”. Her paper was supposed to be about how media affects all teenage girls. She should have focused on how they enlarge breast, butts and even eyes. Even plus sized models are fixed with Photoshop. Even at the very end of her article, she skinny shames and ask who looks happier. All she does is voice her own insecurities instead of helping anyone or making any real valid
Then you as the person in her scenario feel unattractive due to something on tv and think of taking diet pills instead of eating your ice-cream. Gunanathan then says that this happens to teenage girls a lot. She starts to say girls want to be stick thin and that it is makes them feel bad when they cannot be. Gunanathan says this is all due to the media. She says that the women they want to look like most of the time don’t even exist and are just photo shopped to look perfect. She says the average woman is 130 pounds not 110 pounds like people assume. Gunanthan then makes the point that teenage girls shouldn’t diet unless their doctor says to. She then presents the results of this body dysmorphia as bulimia and anorexia. She explains that they can cause serious health problems. She ends her article with a picture of a skinny model that weighs 110 pounds and a picture of larger women that are 130 pounds and ask who looks …show more content…
I enjoy her scenario on the average teenage girl and that her next paragraph explained its use. Then, the article starts to bash models and says that media causes girls low self-esteem and depression. It gives no proof of this and the next paragraph starts. Gunanathan starts in with valid points about how the media Photoshop’s women to make them look perfect then immediately comes back to the weight of the girls. Once again in her last paragraph she comes back to weight saying “a teen should not be dieting”. Her paper was supposed to be about how media affects all teenage girls. She should have focused on how they enlarge breast, butts and even eyes. Even plus sized models are fixed with Photoshop. Even at the very end of her article, she skinny shames and ask who looks happier. All she does is voice her own insecurities instead of helping anyone or making any real valid