Susan Bordo Never Just Pictures Analysis

Nearly every child is born in a home where there is TV, internet, magazines, and phones. It is hard to avoid social media in one way or another because it reaches large audiences through technology. The media is inescapable, and its influence is something Susan Bordo explores in her article “Never Just Pictures”. Bordos tries to get readers to take a close look at today’s obsession with body image. What is body image? Body image is how a person sees themselves. Basically Bordo is saying that today’s society looks at videos and magazines to get ideas of what they should look like. Bordo talks about how people are starving their bodies to become thin instead of being healthy. Bordo, further opens the idea of why people are striving to be thin …show more content…
Basically Bordo is saying that people rely on media thinking that is the right way to follow. single image in an advertisement holds so much power over people. Media manipulates people to purchase their products even if they know that those products don’t work as they are advertised by media. People are just blinded by what they see and they tend to believe in them children in this culture grow up knowing that you can never be thin enough and that being fat is one of the most worst things one can be. Which proves the point that system behind clothing manufactures and how they advertise their products raking in profits without caring much about the effects they are causing to the audience. In this article I will examine the former issue. The dangers of constant dissatisfaction with one’s life and the never ending striving for the constantly eluding perfecting in projecting an image of …show more content…
With time people have adopted what they have enumerated from media. As discussed early media is there to sell its products. People should not take everything thing they see serious. I agree with her on this point because before social networks, people mostly had images on billboards of impossibly perfect celebrities. People would pass this billboards, watch them on TV, and flip through them in magazines but not staring at them for hours every day. Also, it is not only exposure to these images that is damaging. It’s our interaction with them. The pressure to have a perfect profile pictures, the comparisons we make and the dangers of the constantly scrutiny of our own and others bodies. As much as the targeted audience has pressure to have a perfect ideal body, people should be able to have a stand and appreciate themselves for who they