Body shape

How We Forget In the words of Christina Ricci, “Any obsession is dangerous.” This can be applied in today’s society, as we seem to have a never-ending list of obsessions. Whatever they may be, these obsessions come in many forms, and are omnipresent in our lives. However, society’s obsession with beauty, social media, and celebrities seem to be the most prominent, and have the most damaging effects on the human race as a whole. The pressure to be beautiful is one of society’s greatest and…

Sofeline Molin ENC1101 Ms. Evens 23 November 2015 The Perfect “BODY” Our famous Victoria Secrets came out with a new ad campaign titled “The Perfect Body”. The ad campaign display ten models standing very tight together with their flat stomachs, long legs and a perfect glowing skin tone that match a brick of gold. The founder of Victoria Secrets is Roy Raymond who then sold the company over too Leslie H. Wexner. He created lingerie undergarments for women and his goals was to create…

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Rachel Dempsey & Joan C. Williams (2014) shows how gender polarization effects the treatment of women in the workplace. It highlights the problematic situation women often stumble upon of being too feminine or too masculine and thus being perceived as not being professional. For example, one existing event correlated with this ideology was during the 2008 presidential election. In this election, Hillary Clinton was running…

Actually, food industries use every available technological technique to adapt their products into the preferences of children; creating campaigns that influence children's habits and diets; yet, this impact can be devastating. "Increasingly, fast food conglomerates are using toy tie-ins with major children’s motion pictures to try to attract young people. Nearly 20% of fast food ads now mention a toy premium in their commercials" (Committee on Communications, 2006). Unfortunately, childhood…

According to Jessica Balmer’s “That’s My Jam”, culture jamming is the act of taking “dominant cultural messages” in mainstream media and creating a parody which in turn exposes the real meaning of the messages. Culture jamming can take many forms such as recreating a companies logo, deforming a billboard and fashion statements. An example indicated by Balmer, is the Black Label beer’s logo being replaced with “Black Labour, White Guilt”. The intentions of culture jamming is to bring awareness to…

humiliated her, because the skirts that they had in the store, did not fit her body. What they had in the store was clothes that were size 6 which was called norm by general concept. The lady implies her forthright thoughts and views by saying “The norm is everywhere, my dear. It’s all over, in the magazines, on television, in the ads. You can’t escape it.” The saleslady strongly defines the meaning of norm of woman’s body size. However, the author…

To continue with the movement of inclusion in the fashion industry, legendary brand J. Crew casted 64 strangers to model their SS17 RTW collection. Creative Director, Jenna Lyons decided to go a different route with this show in order to showcase the “normal” everyday people and J. Crew consumer. While we are custom to see super models take over the catwalk, things were different this time around. Instead, we saw teachers, bloggers, photographers, artists, activists and students whose ages…

media can lead women to be obsessed in “beauty” and cause health issues. In the article of “Before Spring Break, The Anorexic Challenge”, most of the female students deprived themselves in order to lose weight in order to “achieving a bikini-ready body” (Rothenberg pg.…

having different self perceptions and are using body…

In this article “Childhood Obesity: Is it Abuse?” by Abigail Darwin it begins by addressing childhood obesity rates and how they are rapidly increasing across the states, forcing courts and child welfare system to deal with the major issue of childhood neglect. States have to try to help all kids with obesity so it doesn’t become a harmful factor of their growth, but they also have to figure out if taking the child out of a family environment is a good idea. Today’s research shows almost 66% of…