Nowadays, humans seem to be captivated not only with new technologies and health advances, but also with having the perfect body image. We as humans are plagued with how our faces, legs, chest and even how our stomachs look. The question is who gets to decide what is admissible, a imperfection, all right or what is perfection. Another question that is up and coming is having to do with the cause of body image and eating disorders. In Susan Bordo’s essay “The Globalization of Eating Disorders,” Susan Bordo emphasizes that the media is the culprit of these disorders, and she is very accurate and thorough in her analysis.
The article visualizes a young girl standing in front of a mirror looking at her body's reflection. Evidently the girl has been striving to lose weight through ingestion of a no-fat diet for a given number of weeks. Even though the young girls do not look fat and has in fact achieved her goal weight, she is still not impressed with the image she is visualizing in front of her mirror. The girl is striving to compare the figure …show more content…
This girl may not have been portrayed as Asian, Black or Latina. Although this is not the case eating disorders are nowadays common among people of all racial parties and sex. Self image and eating disorders have become a worldwide issue of worry. For example the Fiji islands which had for a great period of time never experienced cases of eating disorders. However, with the evolution of media sources such as television, cases of dieting and eating disorders started to come up. This specifies the incredible impact that media has over contributing to the greatly numbering cases of eating disorders. There is no culture that is able to stop nor block the great effect of media on young people, especially girl’s consciousness of their body