If you have ever gone through a grocery store checkout, you have probably seen the racks of magazines that are strategically placed for you to look at them while you wait in line to buy your items. Although there are a large variety of magazines about many different subjects, the magazines that most commonly end up in store checkout lines are the magazines that focus on weight loss. Magazines like People with articles titled “We Lost Half Our Size” (Kast and Mazziotta, 60-69), tell stories about how individuals have lost weight, portraying a false sense of positivity while actually depicting unrealistic achievements for the average person.
A lot of magazines that are target at teenage girls have photographs of popular celebrities that have been doctored in some way on the cover, further showing impractical goals to the people who view them. This can be harmful as young girls believe that that is what they should look like, even though …show more content…
Although girls are more likely to be bullied because of their appearance than men, and women face more pressure to fit a specific image, the media can also show men unrealistically. Men are shown to be large and muscular in movies or on magazines. This could influence men to work out and push themselves because they think they need to be like the actors who have had professional help and training to look the way that they do. Men and women both face pressures to fit into a social norm. Men should be strong and tough and women need to be pretty and delicate. There are certain things men should like and certain things women should like. Even some jobs are given gender roles, such as men being doctors and women being nurses. A line in the song “Little Game” says “hush boy, oh hush, boy, don’t say a word, throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt. hush girl, oh hush, girl, just bat your eyes” (Pierce). The song goes on to say how gender roles are like a game there are rules everyone is expected to abide
A lot of magazines that are target at teenage girls have photographs of popular celebrities that have been doctored in some way on the cover, further showing impractical goals to the people who view them. This can be harmful as young girls believe that that is what they should look like, even though …show more content…
Although girls are more likely to be bullied because of their appearance than men, and women face more pressure to fit a specific image, the media can also show men unrealistically. Men are shown to be large and muscular in movies or on magazines. This could influence men to work out and push themselves because they think they need to be like the actors who have had professional help and training to look the way that they do. Men and women both face pressures to fit into a social norm. Men should be strong and tough and women need to be pretty and delicate. There are certain things men should like and certain things women should like. Even some jobs are given gender roles, such as men being doctors and women being nurses. A line in the song “Little Game” says “hush boy, oh hush, boy, don’t say a word, throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt. hush girl, oh hush, girl, just bat your eyes” (Pierce). The song goes on to say how gender roles are like a game there are rules everyone is expected to abide