Body Image Research Paper

Body Image Media, toys and television have become a huge part of how people see themselves. These predominate messages that are sent out to society affects the way people look at themselves more and more, and causes a negative outlook that can lead to eating disorders. Many men, women and children look at themselves negatively, especially when it comes to their body image. Media and children’s toys have an effect on a person’s body image because the messages of people in society being skinny have caused them to achieve this image by creating an eating disorder for themselves.
Media portrays to society that there is such thing as an ideal man or woman in many different ways. In today’s culture women feel that they need to attain a certain image to be loved or wanted. The ideal woman in today’s society is someone who is skinny with big eyes and has perfect skin, but no one naturally looks that way unless they got plastic surgery. Men can also feel that they are not wanted by women because they do not have ABS, a muscular and fit body, or they do not make a lot of money (Warren). Men may have it the easiest when it comes to looking like the ideal person, but it has become more of a problem in men recently than ever before. Mass media is not the …show more content…
Media pressures society to be thin and multibillion dollar diet industries feed off of the part of society who believes the media. Diet companies have developed many different products to help people lose weight such as diet pills, shakes and many more. Another thing people run to so they can lose weight is plastic surgery. Mass media is not the only thing that is introducing people to the idea of losing weight or of thinking badly about themselves, but television is doing the same thing (Beresin, Derrene