Rhetorical Analysis Paper At your petition, I have read and reviewed the article “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Bordo, to consider whether it would be fit to use it in The Shorthorn or not. After much thought and analysis I strongly suggest that it should be published in the The Shorthorn. Although the article is outdated and a bit rusty, it is still extremely relevant to the The Shorthorn audience. The author gives firm evidences by using the three rhetorical appeals, logos, ethos, and pathos.…
Overwhelmed by media body images of thin models, body builders, young girls and young men are growing up convinced that being thin and buff is the ideal to be accepted in the world. According to Michelle Siegel, Ph.D., in her Article “The Body Betrayed” states that the average person – sees between 40 million to 50 million ad commercials on television a year which one of every 11 commercials has a direct message about beauty. In these commercials it gives men and women the ideal of an average American man, and woman, and how people should look like for example a woman with a body of a model that is 5 foot ten, and 107 pounds and as for men tall handsome with a built muscular body. What is shown is not really how a person really is; men and…
Dove has recently come across issues relating to body image and appearance, especially prominent among the Women target group. Although women are the main focus of appearance and body image, it is not excluded that this problem is also faced by men. In society today, there are many social pressures that are forced unto people to uphold a certain physical appearance. Men and women both spend a considerable amount of time and money on how they present themselves to the western society around them. In recent news, women of all ages (especially young adults and teens) admit to having a misinterpreted image of what ‘real beauty’ is by comparing themselves to women they see in various media outlets eg, models.…
Over eighty percent of women in the United States are dissatisfied with their appearance (Ross). In today’s society women are constantly being told that they have to fit the standards of the ideal woman in order to be considered beautiful. Some of these standards include having light eyes, blonde hair, perfect teeth, flawless, tan skin, long legs, and a well-proportioned figure and are often times impossible for most women in the U.S. to attain (Sherrow). Women who do not fit under these criteria are often prone to eating disorders, depression, or anxiety and may find it difficult to develop a positive body image. Many researchers have concluded that media is one of the main causes of these unrealistic standards that women are held to (Sherrow).…
Body image expectations and standards have become such an issue in society that it has reached the point of “mind control”--not literally, but figuratively speaking. The standards that have been created and applied to the female figure seems exceedingly unrealistic, yet those standards and expectations still apply. What women are supposed to look like, according to the media in society, causes women an immense amount of stress and pressure, which can ultimately lead to self-esteem issues and depression. The media and advertisements constantly display and flaunt women with amazing figures-- usually, abnormally skinny or fit-- insinuating that this is what all women look like, or in order to be successful you must look like this. Such images…
In our modern world the media has caused women to feel pressured to conform to males ideals of the perfect woman and led to these women engaging in cosmetic surgical procedures to alter their appearance in order to please society and men, while making themselves feel more insecure. Most women statistically are spending more on beauty products and the pursuit of the media’s ideals of beauty than on their own education which is beneficial to them in the long…
This fictional image is impossible to achieve naturally. Advertisements on TV, in magazines, and on billboards are constantly focused on the female image. Statistics show that comments about a woman’s image were made about 28% of the female models in TV commercials, where as the male image was only commented on 7% of the time. The media’s focus on a woman’s “looks” is everywhere in today’s society, and with advertisements and commercials constantly reminding women of their looks, they are forced to compare themselves to the models within the advertisements. One-statistic shows that in one study 69% of girls admitted magazine models influence their idea of a perfect body.…
It is sad to see women or even young girls put their lives at risk to meet these beauty standards. More and more girls are suffering from eating disorders, and younger girls are getting plastic surgery. If we go back in time you can see how beauty standards have changed over time. As time progresses the less realistic beauty standards become. We have reached the point as to where fake is what’s the norm and natural is seen as unacceptable and ugly.…
A major problem in the modern world is the issue of unrealistic body image expectations for women. The faces and bodies of the Kardashian clan are unnaturally perfect. This gives women and girls unrealistic ideas about body image. The only reason that the Kardashians look perfect is because an army of makeup artists conceal their imperfections, and both photoshopping and expert plastic surgeons alter their bodies. However, many women and girls do not realize this and expect to naturally be able to achieve physical perfection.…
Social standards of women’s body images are presented in all types of media, constricting our own depiction of women and replacing it with the unofficial rules of society—women must be thin, attractive, have flawless skin, perfectly whitened teeth, act as sexual objects, and must be portrayed as such. Not only does this affect society’s views of women as a whole, but it also enforces internalization of these thoughts by women themselves. Mass media’s use of unrealistic models sends a message to women everywhere, saying that in order to look beautiful, a woman has to be unhealthy, unwise, and subject to society’s scrutiny. Society encourages the thoughts that constantly meddle through a woman’s head—I’m too skinny or I’m too fat.…
We live in an era where people are negative towards their own bodies and looks have become a daily activity. In the mass media, the most alluring is rail thin, have long hair and perfect skin. If one is favorable to the eye, one is acceptable to society. However, the projected image that the media places on women is a huge controversy today. Media is responsible for building these ideal beauty and body images.…
“The mass media play an outsized role in the communication of the cultural stereotypes about the aesthetics of body image” (Perloff, 2014). The reconciliation of the acceptance of plus size women will take time and true effort by the media. For example in highly recognized plus size super model Ashley Graham was featured front and center on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, along with features in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle. A true reconciliation can and should start for all models, it is easy to pick at the flaws of a plus size woman and use the BMI chart as a tool to beat over their heads as of constant reminder of what they lack. However, the scale works both ways.…
Whether women realize it or not, the beauty industry’s heavy influence has the power to manipulate their cosmetic habits, opinions, beliefs, and self-esteems. With these new advancements in technology and the amplification in the media, becoming engulfed by the beauty industry is almost inescapable. Although the beauty industry has evolved to be more inclusive and have positive impacts on women, there is still room for improvement. Beauty continues to have a great impact on women in American society today. A study from U.S. News & World Report revealed that “35% of adults interviewed in a survey regarding what they thought society valued in each gender stated that physical attractiveness is what society most values in women” (“Study: Women Valued…” online).…
Young women who spend an ample amount of time connected to the media feel pressure to look a particular way, or do their makeup a certain way to be accepted. A main concern for negative body image would be advertisements. Advertisers surround us with ideal imagine of female beauty so that we all know how important it is for a woman to be beautiful and what it takes. Women learn from a very early age that we must spend enormous amounts of time and money struggling to achieve this ideal and feeling ashamed and guilty when we fail. Most advertisements that are in the market for dietary pills show fit and toned models to get the audience to purchase the product with the mentality that they too can look like that.…
Magazines, commercials, billboards, and ads of the beauty industry all have a common appearance to them. They include a beautiful woman, one that women everywhere envy. Some feel they need to look like this to be beautiful at all. Some women turn to makeup, and even plastic surgery to totally transform their face and body. But in reality each of the women in commercials or other advertisement aids have been transformed by a makeup artist and some by a doctor or plastic surgeon but almost all have been changed by a computer.…