Cheyenne Baker
McCorkle
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The Media and Female Body Image The media is everywhere. Magazines. TV shows. Movies. People are exposed to it on the daily. But, very little attention is given to whom is exposed or what messages are being conveyed. Females, young and old, from the very beginning are exposed to the broadcasting and the sorts. Image upon image of a “perfect” female are constantly drilled into their heads. Everything from “flawless” skin to “proportioned” bodies are scattered across the way and viewed by those of the fairer sex. It causes them to think that their otherwise normal and beautiful bodies do not live up to those standards. Beauty standards created by the media and are streamed out to the female population; …show more content…
Why did this idea come to be? What could possibly make a young girl think she is fat? There are many answers to those questions but here is one of them. Disney Princesses. Why them though? Well, they are a girl’s first exposure to media typically, aside from children’s books. Parents just through the discs into the player and let the children view away. The pretty cartoon women easily amuse the masses and thus can keep a young girl occupied for a measly eighty minutes or so. But the thing is, Disney princesses do not have remotely normal body proportions. Almost all them have impossibly thin waists and extra-long arms and legs. Despite the diversity, the princesses have, their body-types are all the same, thin, and perfect. girls will look at these flat, 2D women, then look at themselves and think something is not right because they do not look like their favorite cartoon character. “Young children are easily influenced by their surroundings and will copy what they see because they believe that is what they are supposed to do” (citation), monkey see monkey do, children absorbed what they see and wish to reflect it outwardly. Going back to the previously mentioned story, there is a detail to add.
McCorkle
Position Essay
Date Here-
The Media and Female Body Image The media is everywhere. Magazines. TV shows. Movies. People are exposed to it on the daily. But, very little attention is given to whom is exposed or what messages are being conveyed. Females, young and old, from the very beginning are exposed to the broadcasting and the sorts. Image upon image of a “perfect” female are constantly drilled into their heads. Everything from “flawless” skin to “proportioned” bodies are scattered across the way and viewed by those of the fairer sex. It causes them to think that their otherwise normal and beautiful bodies do not live up to those standards. Beauty standards created by the media and are streamed out to the female population; …show more content…
Why did this idea come to be? What could possibly make a young girl think she is fat? There are many answers to those questions but here is one of them. Disney Princesses. Why them though? Well, they are a girl’s first exposure to media typically, aside from children’s books. Parents just through the discs into the player and let the children view away. The pretty cartoon women easily amuse the masses and thus can keep a young girl occupied for a measly eighty minutes or so. But the thing is, Disney princesses do not have remotely normal body proportions. Almost all them have impossibly thin waists and extra-long arms and legs. Despite the diversity, the princesses have, their body-types are all the same, thin, and perfect. girls will look at these flat, 2D women, then look at themselves and think something is not right because they do not look like their favorite cartoon character. “Young children are easily influenced by their surroundings and will copy what they see because they believe that is what they are supposed to do” (citation), monkey see monkey do, children absorbed what they see and wish to reflect it outwardly. Going back to the previously mentioned story, there is a detail to add.