Beauty Sickness Harvey Engel Analysis

One of my quick writes was on September 14. In Renee Engel's book “Beauty sickness” I was assigned to read chapter 8 (Anti)Social Media and Online. This chapter was about how social media changed the way we get ready every day and we find things that we don’t like about our bodies because we want to look like ideal body and face. She mentions that “This shows how some girls decides to take pictures, but they edit them because they don’t like the way they look. Girls use several apps to edit themselves for example their face if they don’t have the perfect glowing skin. They manage to take all of their marks on their face to look the way they want to be. Before taking this course I use to be one of those girls that would edit their pictures to have a perfect skin but my mind has changed. My understanding of woman’s life and experiences changed since I began this course by seeing how we have to value …show more content…
For the quick write I had to find 5 statements/concepts that we powerful to me. Two of the main statement/concept that was powerful to me was “More than 50% of 5-12 years old want to lose weight because they want to fit in into what is presented to the world.” And “people who are on the magazines or billboard are made on the computer and you should not compare yourself to something that does not exist because no one can be the exact same body shape.” My understanding of body image/bodies has changed when I watched this movie for several reasons. One reason is because I use to worry about the way my body looked and decided to lose weight but it never crossed my mind that my body is a vehicle of my life like Taryn said. I always wanted my body like the ones in the magazines, billboard and social media but when I watched this movie I realized that we all have a different body