In the media, both male and female are subjects to high expectations when regarding beauty. Women are the most impacted as the media over exaggerate their appearance. Most exaggeration shows expectation that every women of different ages should follow, in order to look “beautiful”. As stated in module 7, “What is Beauty Myth? Simply put, the beauty Myth is just that... a myth… a socio-historical construction of what is beautiful” (Module 7 pg.13). The exaggeration from the media can lead women to be obsessed in “beauty” and cause health issues. In the article of “Before Spring Break, The Anorexic Challenge”, most of the female students deprived themselves in order to lose weight in order to “achieving a bikini-ready body” (Rothenberg pg.
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People would often hate themselves for being too tall to fit into specific clothes that were advertised in magazine or too big to fit. These individuals see themselves as imperfect and hate themselves, despite there being nothing wrong with them. I myself have experienced a type of self-hate what I was younger. I was very tall and overweight; which affect my health, self-esteem and fitness. I would constantly stare at my image in the mirror and hate myself for look the way I did. It did not help that the media would stereotype overweight individuals as people who were always bullied. Magazine are also another example, as it gave expectation that slim and fit individuals were always seen as beautiful and overweight individuals as ugly. Eventually I was able to lose a lot that weight and breakaway from my self-hate. Larger forces such as the media reinforce self-hate, beauty image, discrimination by having exaggerated expectation of how “beauty” is portrayed. Both male and women suffer from these expectation; sometimes going to extreme measure to try to look “beautiful”. The way to uphold and deconstruct the beauty image is to not fall prey to the media. From experience, I know how it is like to have others make fun of your weight and having self-hate. Each individual, despite appearance, is unique and beautiful in their own respectful
People would often hate themselves for being too tall to fit into specific clothes that were advertised in magazine or too big to fit. These individuals see themselves as imperfect and hate themselves, despite there being nothing wrong with them. I myself have experienced a type of self-hate what I was younger. I was very tall and overweight; which affect my health, self-esteem and fitness. I would constantly stare at my image in the mirror and hate myself for look the way I did. It did not help that the media would stereotype overweight individuals as people who were always bullied. Magazine are also another example, as it gave expectation that slim and fit individuals were always seen as beautiful and overweight individuals as ugly. Eventually I was able to lose a lot that weight and breakaway from my self-hate. Larger forces such as the media reinforce self-hate, beauty image, discrimination by having exaggerated expectation of how “beauty” is portrayed. Both male and women suffer from these expectation; sometimes going to extreme measure to try to look “beautiful”. The way to uphold and deconstruct the beauty image is to not fall prey to the media. From experience, I know how it is like to have others make fun of your weight and having self-hate. Each individual, despite appearance, is unique and beautiful in their own respectful