Society expects thinness. By creating the “perfect” body image, society convinces people that they must achieve a specific body type. People assume that in order for society to accept them, they must conform to society’s standards. In the article, “From Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology” by Judith Lorber, she puts emphasis on how society impacts gender expectations. She describes how many people in society today accept these expectations as fact. In the article “The Spread of Cult Thinness: Preteen Girls, Adolescents, Straight Men, Gays, Lesbians, and Ethnic Women” by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, the author comments on what society considers the perfect female body type. Biber discusses how the expectations that society sets have negative impacts on people and how people view themselves. As people attempt to live up to these specifications, they must take drastic measures to fit the
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People just go along with what society expects, and seldom do they consider why. “Most people, however, voluntarily go along with their society’s perscriptions… because the norms and expectations get built into their sense of worth” (Lorber 753). People blindly go along with what society has perscribed necessary to fit in. People focus on what society expects of them and they allow society define who they are. They allow society to tell them what to think, how to talk, what to believe, and what to consider attractive and beautiful. “Traditionally, ‘the woman is supposed to be attracted to the man for his social achievements (wealth and power) and simply because he is a man’” (Biber 777). Society expects women to look at a man and find him attractive based on his successes. Society teaches people to look for certain traits, such as success or thinness, and consider these traits the only way to achieve beauty. People push themselves to fulfill these perscriptions of beauty and obtain the ideal body image that society
People just go along with what society expects, and seldom do they consider why. “Most people, however, voluntarily go along with their society’s perscriptions… because the norms and expectations get built into their sense of worth” (Lorber 753). People blindly go along with what society has perscribed necessary to fit in. People focus on what society expects of them and they allow society define who they are. They allow society to tell them what to think, how to talk, what to believe, and what to consider attractive and beautiful. “Traditionally, ‘the woman is supposed to be attracted to the man for his social achievements (wealth and power) and simply because he is a man’” (Biber 777). Society expects women to look at a man and find him attractive based on his successes. Society teaches people to look for certain traits, such as success or thinness, and consider these traits the only way to achieve beauty. People push themselves to fulfill these perscriptions of beauty and obtain the ideal body image that society