). Being thin is portrayed in the media as the ideal body and in return holds negative opinion of being overweight. In addition, Van Vonderen and Kinnally also utilized a saying by Triplett to better illustrate his ideas and stated that “being overweight is seen as a stigma, and considered to be a condition that the individual can prevent” (Van Vonderen and Kinnally). Not all of us have the ability to control our weight issues. There are diagnosed medical cases that no matter how much one works out or eats healthy one continues to increasingly gain weight. An example of this type of medical condition is hypothyroidism. I am a victim of this disease and until I was properly diagnosed I gained twice my original weight. Regardless of how someone
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This analysis is irrelevant in the fact no one can determine how social and visual media can effect a person. Regardless of their upbringing the way a person processes their own thoughts is different with every individual. Unfortunately we cannot hold our children’s hands throughout their whole life making sure they are making right decisions. We can do our part in making sure we are positive remodels but the world around us will still have a huge impact on our children. Bullying for one is experienced ubiquitously. One, can never prepare for the ramifications of bullying. We are warned and counselled on preparing oneself for the expectations of bullying but until you actually experience it for yourself no one can say for what the outcomes maybe. My mother- in – law is a high school teacher at a school in Bakersfield, CA. She hears the ever depressing comments, the ridicule, the hurtful words aimed towards children who aren’t privileged enough to have nice clothes, name brand shoes, or fancy makeup. There is only so much a teacher can do to intercede but even this is only a temporary …show more content…
“Park noted that the body size of women portrayed in mass media has been steadily getting smaller. Wiseman, Gray, Mosimann, and Athens studied portrayals of female beauty icons from 1959 -1978 and observed that over half of them met the medical criteria for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa” (Van Vonderen, Kinally). The overwhelming pressure of being something that doesn’t even truly exist can lead to cosmetic surgery that isn’t life like. For example the “human ken doll”, Justin Jedlica who has been on a mission to achieve what he perceives as physical perfection with over 150 cosmetic surgeries and counting. Jedlica states in a clip filmed by OWN that “Ever since I was in my teens, I wanted to have plastic surgery. To me, it meant luxury and it meant wealth, and that was something I wanted in my life”. Justin Jedlica clearly developed an unhealthy form of what the ideal body image is and it has affected him throughout his life. When a child sees images of what he perceives as wealth and riches why wouldn’t he aim for this in his adult life. When one sees men and woman who aren’t realistic but
This analysis is irrelevant in the fact no one can determine how social and visual media can effect a person. Regardless of their upbringing the way a person processes their own thoughts is different with every individual. Unfortunately we cannot hold our children’s hands throughout their whole life making sure they are making right decisions. We can do our part in making sure we are positive remodels but the world around us will still have a huge impact on our children. Bullying for one is experienced ubiquitously. One, can never prepare for the ramifications of bullying. We are warned and counselled on preparing oneself for the expectations of bullying but until you actually experience it for yourself no one can say for what the outcomes maybe. My mother- in – law is a high school teacher at a school in Bakersfield, CA. She hears the ever depressing comments, the ridicule, the hurtful words aimed towards children who aren’t privileged enough to have nice clothes, name brand shoes, or fancy makeup. There is only so much a teacher can do to intercede but even this is only a temporary …show more content…
“Park noted that the body size of women portrayed in mass media has been steadily getting smaller. Wiseman, Gray, Mosimann, and Athens studied portrayals of female beauty icons from 1959 -1978 and observed that over half of them met the medical criteria for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa” (Van Vonderen, Kinally). The overwhelming pressure of being something that doesn’t even truly exist can lead to cosmetic surgery that isn’t life like. For example the “human ken doll”, Justin Jedlica who has been on a mission to achieve what he perceives as physical perfection with over 150 cosmetic surgeries and counting. Jedlica states in a clip filmed by OWN that “Ever since I was in my teens, I wanted to have plastic surgery. To me, it meant luxury and it meant wealth, and that was something I wanted in my life”. Justin Jedlica clearly developed an unhealthy form of what the ideal body image is and it has affected him throughout his life. When a child sees images of what he perceives as wealth and riches why wouldn’t he aim for this in his adult life. When one sees men and woman who aren’t realistic but