Essay On Media's To Blame

The Media’s to Blame “Few people can permanently escape the grip of a society focused on youth and beauty” (Driscoll and Campbell). The negative effects the media has on a person’s self-esteem is inarguable, however whether or not the media induces the increase of Body Dysmorphia Disorders is still debatable. The increase of BDDs (Body Dysmorphia Disorders), such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Muscle Dysmorphia, have become hard to ignore. The media produces unrealistic images of a desirable human body through plastic surgery and airbrushing techniques. The ideal image for men has always seemed to be tall, lean with sculpted muscles. While the women’s ideal image seems to change by generation, from boyish and flat-chested in the 1920s to the large-breasted and broad hipped women of the 1950s, it always seems to come back to one major aspect: Skinny (Chittom and Findley). The media is to blame for the increase of BDDs and lack of self-esteem that plague men, women and children in today’s society. People are judged by their body types everyday for being too short or not skinny enough. This is grown immensely with the expansion of media. “Tabloid magazines and …show more content…
The level of Serotonin causes a person to feel happy when consuming foods.“The level of serotonin increases when a person consumes food or binges and provides a temporary sense of satisfaction” (Driscoll and Campbell). In bulimics the high level of serotonin makes them uncomfortable and anxious so they turn to regurgitating the food to gain control over how they feel. While in anorexics the opposite occurs; they feel better by not eating food, thus starving themselves (Driscoll and Campbell). While the connection between serotonin and BDDs is true, it does not account for the thousands of other people with stable levels of serotonin that suffer from eating