Social Media Pressure On Women

It is impossible to not scroll through a magazine or your daily dose of Internet surfing through your social media networks and have beautiful women pop up on your feed. Not just beautiful women, but women with incredibly voluptuous and fit bodies. There is so much pressure to achieve that “hour glass” shape body that even celebrities such as the infamous Kardashian’s have contributed to this extra pressure on women to have a tiny waist by promoting “waist trainers.” As a result, not only do women face the pressures of having a career and a perfect family, but also highly aesthetic bodies that today’s society views as “beautiful” and “acceptable.” These added pressures can have the potential to damage a women’s health rather than to improve it. …show more content…
There is no channel you can flip to where the main program presenter is not physically fit, or has had some obvious surgery alterations to look “perfect.” For example, in the Hispanic community, most weather news forecaster women have an amazing physique. Globally, millions of housewives watch the news with their families and must feel some type of pressure to achieve this look; in addition to this, young girls are exposed to these pressures at an earlier age, which could mold their thoughts of what they see as beautiful and important as they grown into adulthood. Program shows dedicated to Latino beauty are broadcasted to showcase “talent,” although they are mostly dedicated to really just show off all the contestants’ aesthetic bodies as they strut on a runway (“Nuestra Belleza Latina”). Instead of encouraging women to embrace real talents, or pursue academic careers that could contribute to society, they are pushed to achieve just a “perfect” body because that’s what is more easily