Unit Two focuses on dieting and health. Within this unit's readings, there are several articles dealing with the different ways dieting habits and different body types effect the image of women in today's culture. From the cause and effect of eating disorders to the changes in female bodybuilding competitions, these articles show how the media's portrayal of body image affects individuals, particularly women in this case. The article, Sublime Hunger: A Consideration of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty, starts with a scenario of an individual waking up in the morning and immediately flushing out their system with laxatives. They talk about how they will not eat until 5 pm and how they will survive the day without food. It is hard to imagine something
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With so many reported cases of different eating disorders, we have to ask; Why is this number so high? The author of Sublime Hunger, Sheila Lintott, makes the argument that it is society's focus on “thinness” that is causing the extreme measures that women take in order to fit the image society has created. She even mentions the idea that women can “never be too thin.” This statement shows how today's culture within fashion and media have warped the minds of men and women. They plant the idea that thin equals beauty. This is a dangerous and false idea that is the cause of many cases of eating disorders. Because the article focuses on women, Lintott states that women are basically brainwashed by the media to believe that they should be as thin as they can get. For women who believe this and get into this state of mind, the results can be deadly …show more content…
The author of this article, Lex Boyle, interviewed six female competitive bodybuilders to examine the responses to the ways their sport has changed. In the 1980s, the sport of female bodybuilding underwent changes. Emphasis would no longer be on just the body, but the face too. This made beauty a factor in a bodybuilding competition. When the changes started occurring, the vice president of the International Federation of Bodybuilding released a statement to a magazine: “At the beginning of 2000, we sent out a criteria that athletes had to come in with more of an emphasis on symmetry and muscularity and that the face would be judged
With so many reported cases of different eating disorders, we have to ask; Why is this number so high? The author of Sublime Hunger, Sheila Lintott, makes the argument that it is society's focus on “thinness” that is causing the extreme measures that women take in order to fit the image society has created. She even mentions the idea that women can “never be too thin.” This statement shows how today's culture within fashion and media have warped the minds of men and women. They plant the idea that thin equals beauty. This is a dangerous and false idea that is the cause of many cases of eating disorders. Because the article focuses on women, Lintott states that women are basically brainwashed by the media to believe that they should be as thin as they can get. For women who believe this and get into this state of mind, the results can be deadly …show more content…
The author of this article, Lex Boyle, interviewed six female competitive bodybuilders to examine the responses to the ways their sport has changed. In the 1980s, the sport of female bodybuilding underwent changes. Emphasis would no longer be on just the body, but the face too. This made beauty a factor in a bodybuilding competition. When the changes started occurring, the vice president of the International Federation of Bodybuilding released a statement to a magazine: “At the beginning of 2000, we sent out a criteria that athletes had to come in with more of an emphasis on symmetry and muscularity and that the face would be judged