Tabitha Farrar's Article: Body Image Of Women

Tabitha Farrar’s article, “Body Image of Women,” explains how the media has created a thin-ideal body image and the negative effects on women, children, and even men that this ideal creates. The article explains the media’s tactics to present this body image by placing women with unrealistic, unhealthy bodies in role model positions, and how corporations use means such as Photoshop to create a physique that is unobtainable. The media’s underlying messages convey the picture that in order to be beautiful and successful you must be thin. These messages have caused many women, young and old, to lose their self-confidence and for others to develop eating disorders. The author explains how many girls and boys as young as 9 years old feel better about themselves when they are on a diet, exemplifying the media’s influence. Farrar offers both personal and societal remedies to the media’s harsh publicity by asking businesses to use only models who are never Photoshopped and to …show more content…
Hingson informs readers about the dangers of underage drinking on and off college campuses and how strict dry policies on campuses may prove to be more dangerous to the surrounding community. Hingson explains that when college officials make alcohol-free campus policies it often pushes the students to drink off campus increasing the chances of intoxicated driving in the surrounding community. Hingson states that both the community and the campus should work together with outreach programs, stricter policies and higher taxes concerning the purchase of alcohol, heavier enforcement of the legal drinking age, et cetera to help prevent underage and unsafe binge drinking. Despite these extensive measures, Hingson says that if any of these programs are to be successful they need complete inclusion with the students. Without the students and leaders on campus’ involvement, the programs will come off as parental resulting in far less