Body Image
The concept of beauty has altered of the last decade. Tan, tall, and skinny seems to the main attraction. Magazines being sold in the United States, are usually portraying an image of a skinny, tall, beautiful woman on the front page. Rarely will there be an image of an average, everyday person on the front page of a magazine. Media is influencing the perception of body image, and people are becoming more and more aware of it. The media has gone as far as of influencing young children, who in turn bully those who do not meet the stereotypical idea of beauty.
Ideeka Short has tweeted about how women are so obsessed with the way they look because they wish to reach perfection, even though it is an impossible task (Mortimer). Seventy-one percent of over 3,000 teens surveyed were said that they felt depressed as a result of the unrealistic images portrayed by the media (Battles). As a result, many people all around the world are taking …show more content…
They see themselves as overweight and larger than they really are and deny how seriously thin they actually are, eventually, they begin to experience amenorrhea, which is when the female will not menstruate, not allowing them to be able to have children (Boughtwood et al. p 16). Anorexia Nervosa is a common illness diagnosed in mostly teenage girls. It is known to be the third top illness found in teens. Anorexia is extremely difficult to cure because it is a chronic illness, meaning it either lasts a very long time, or it is incurable. Translated in Latin, Anorexia Nervosa means, “nervous loss of appetite (Boughtwood et al. p 15).” This term is rhetorical because people diagnosed with anorexia stop eating, not because of a loss of appetite, but because they just refuse to consume anything in order to prevent gaining weight or becoming
The concept of beauty has altered of the last decade. Tan, tall, and skinny seems to the main attraction. Magazines being sold in the United States, are usually portraying an image of a skinny, tall, beautiful woman on the front page. Rarely will there be an image of an average, everyday person on the front page of a magazine. Media is influencing the perception of body image, and people are becoming more and more aware of it. The media has gone as far as of influencing young children, who in turn bully those who do not meet the stereotypical idea of beauty.
Ideeka Short has tweeted about how women are so obsessed with the way they look because they wish to reach perfection, even though it is an impossible task (Mortimer). Seventy-one percent of over 3,000 teens surveyed were said that they felt depressed as a result of the unrealistic images portrayed by the media (Battles). As a result, many people all around the world are taking …show more content…
They see themselves as overweight and larger than they really are and deny how seriously thin they actually are, eventually, they begin to experience amenorrhea, which is when the female will not menstruate, not allowing them to be able to have children (Boughtwood et al. p 16). Anorexia Nervosa is a common illness diagnosed in mostly teenage girls. It is known to be the third top illness found in teens. Anorexia is extremely difficult to cure because it is a chronic illness, meaning it either lasts a very long time, or it is incurable. Translated in Latin, Anorexia Nervosa means, “nervous loss of appetite (Boughtwood et al. p 15).” This term is rhetorical because people diagnosed with anorexia stop eating, not because of a loss of appetite, but because they just refuse to consume anything in order to prevent gaining weight or becoming