While researching the question, "How does the media portray women's body image?" other questions like "What psychological effects does the ‘ideal body image' have on women?" follow. Media has grown over the past decade. New technology has sparked an age of social media. As media becomes more popular so does the awful depictions of women. Body image has become harmful to women both young and old. Not only does the media represent woman as sex objects it shows overly exaggerated women made for perfection. Every form of media changes or deforms pictures of women to make them look more "beautiful." This causes problems with self-esteem within women. Many more psychological and physical problems are occurring amongst women. Girls are starving themselves
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Research has been done amongst women of different race, age, and origin to make tie together the problems that are reoccurring throughout the world due to the representation that the media chooses to display.
A journalist from the Guardian Newspaper, Karen Kay, wrote the article "From Social Media to the Catwalk, Is Fantasy Beauty Failing Young Women? After 'Fat Shaming' on Trains and a Campaign for Health Checks for Models, Do We Risk Creating Unachievable and Narrow Ideals of Body Image That Do More Harm Than Good?" This article brings attention to "ideal body image" and how it was a "term used only by psychologists about ‘a person's perception of the aesthetics or attractiveness of their own body'." The term now has over 10 million definitions according to the article. Kay's article gives examples of "fat-shaming" going on in the world today. Nathan McGuire's article gives opposite examples. McGuire's article, "Love Your Body Week Seeks to Chance BC Perspectives On Body Image" reflects on a Boston college and its efforts to change body image issues and to "sustain a more positive dialogue around body image." In Kay's article, an interview was done with an Australian Model, named Rosie Nelson. She tells her story of …show more content…
There is someone in charge of the making of every TV commercial, movie, magazine cover, and billboard. Names of models and actors are released to the public but bosses of these major companies are unknown. Women are learning to deal with the media without the option of stopping it. It's the public's responsibility to make things better when it should be movie producers or modeling companies. If the makers of these types of medias were given restrictions on what they displayed the problem would
Research has been done amongst women of different race, age, and origin to make tie together the problems that are reoccurring throughout the world due to the representation that the media chooses to display.
A journalist from the Guardian Newspaper, Karen Kay, wrote the article "From Social Media to the Catwalk, Is Fantasy Beauty Failing Young Women? After 'Fat Shaming' on Trains and a Campaign for Health Checks for Models, Do We Risk Creating Unachievable and Narrow Ideals of Body Image That Do More Harm Than Good?" This article brings attention to "ideal body image" and how it was a "term used only by psychologists about ‘a person's perception of the aesthetics or attractiveness of their own body'." The term now has over 10 million definitions according to the article. Kay's article gives examples of "fat-shaming" going on in the world today. Nathan McGuire's article gives opposite examples. McGuire's article, "Love Your Body Week Seeks to Chance BC Perspectives On Body Image" reflects on a Boston college and its efforts to change body image issues and to "sustain a more positive dialogue around body image." In Kay's article, an interview was done with an Australian Model, named Rosie Nelson. She tells her story of …show more content…
There is someone in charge of the making of every TV commercial, movie, magazine cover, and billboard. Names of models and actors are released to the public but bosses of these major companies are unknown. Women are learning to deal with the media without the option of stopping it. It's the public's responsibility to make things better when it should be movie producers or modeling companies. If the makers of these types of medias were given restrictions on what they displayed the problem would