The gender-focused event that I attended was ‘Girlfriends Guide to Mental Health: From self-loathing to self-loving’. The sold out event was presented by The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center; a mental health care center devoted to creating faster recoveries for those suffering with mental illness. The goal of the presentation was to teach participants to “silence the malicious voice in [their] head[s], the one that says you will never be good enough, loved enough or valued enough”, as well as “inspire, entertain and educate”. Nicole Loreto, the vice president of communications and partnerships at The Royal, started the evening by introducing the theme of the night, as well as the host Robyn Bresnahan of Ottawa Morning on CBC Radio One. Bresnahan
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Both Darling-Wolf and Bordo address body image and how our view of ourselves are altered by the media. Both Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, Dr. Mirzeai, and Susan Stuart address the role that the media plays in creating positive body image. Much of what Sophie spoke of was introduced to us in our reading by Susan Bordo, in her novel “Unbearable Weight.” In Bordo’s reading she speaks of the important relationship between self-image and food. She states that, “almost all of us who can afford to be eating well are dieting – and hungry – almost all the time” (Bordo, 1993). This comes in close relation to Trudeau’s struggle with Bulimia, how social pressures to maintain the ‘perfect’ figure change her relationship with food. Darling-Wolf also addresses the struggle of having an eating disorders in her paper, starting by introducing that idea that she too had suffered from Bulimia since she was a young child. Dr. Mirzeai and Stuart both address concepts focused on by Darling-Wolf. They both addressed during their presentations that we need to take a step back from newspapers and television shows, to realize that many actors do not portray the norm. Darling-Wolf in her article states, “models have become increasingly thin, and through advertising, we are now offered a verity of solutions to escape the tyranny of our bodies” (Darling-Wolf, 2000). Stuart as a performer spoke to this idea, as she presented her journey through depression as a result of her thinking that she was not acceptable for modern media. That her depression was a result of her inner thoughts leading her to believe that she was not good enough. She attributed this partly to the ‘perfect look’ that we believe that we are expected to have. Dr. Mirzeai very similarly spoke of having to turn away from the photo shopped images on magazines, and refraining for allowing our young children from coming into
Both Darling-Wolf and Bordo address body image and how our view of ourselves are altered by the media. Both Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, Dr. Mirzeai, and Susan Stuart address the role that the media plays in creating positive body image. Much of what Sophie spoke of was introduced to us in our reading by Susan Bordo, in her novel “Unbearable Weight.” In Bordo’s reading she speaks of the important relationship between self-image and food. She states that, “almost all of us who can afford to be eating well are dieting – and hungry – almost all the time” (Bordo, 1993). This comes in close relation to Trudeau’s struggle with Bulimia, how social pressures to maintain the ‘perfect’ figure change her relationship with food. Darling-Wolf also addresses the struggle of having an eating disorders in her paper, starting by introducing that idea that she too had suffered from Bulimia since she was a young child. Dr. Mirzeai and Stuart both address concepts focused on by Darling-Wolf. They both addressed during their presentations that we need to take a step back from newspapers and television shows, to realize that many actors do not portray the norm. Darling-Wolf in her article states, “models have become increasingly thin, and through advertising, we are now offered a verity of solutions to escape the tyranny of our bodies” (Darling-Wolf, 2000). Stuart as a performer spoke to this idea, as she presented her journey through depression as a result of her thinking that she was not acceptable for modern media. That her depression was a result of her inner thoughts leading her to believe that she was not good enough. She attributed this partly to the ‘perfect look’ that we believe that we are expected to have. Dr. Mirzeai very similarly spoke of having to turn away from the photo shopped images on magazines, and refraining for allowing our young children from coming into