Robin, thank you for your shrewd understand on this topic. I completely agree with you. Magazines directed towards women have generated unrealistic expectations on how women should look. The articles, pictures and overall content of the magazines over time have afflicted women by idealizing an impractical body image. In clinical studies, a correlation between eating disorders and women’s magazines has been identified, due to the impractical body images illustrated throughout the women’s magazines. Women are held to higher standards than men in brand names such as Victoria’s Secret, Brandy Melville, ect. Such lables accentuate the physical attraction is based on body size. The expectations of a man are based on mostly on monetary success more
