The Skinny

There are websites and also accounts on instagram and twitter that may inspire you to be a healthier person but there are also accounts that encourage binge eating. Binge eating is eating very little to no food a day. This makes you starve yourself and instead of helping you, out slowly kills you. The accounts that encourage things like this may give you motivation to stop eating and encouraging you to feel okay and tells you that what you are doing is fine. Another major part of eating…

she needed to lose a small amount of weight. Amy did not think she was chubby, but when she asked her friends for reassurance, they also agreed with her parents. After a few years she became exposed to different types of media. She kept hearing how skinny and slim her mother was when she was Amy’s age. Amy became self conscious and began skipping lunch here and there. Her emotional state was so compromised that she got over the littlest things and would go on “hunger strikes”. Eventually Amy…

“perfect” bodies can cause people to stop eating so they can also have the unrealistically skinny bodies. It is one thing to be a little unhappy with your body, but it is a whole other matter when people develop serious illnesses such as eating disorders. What a terrible thing to happen to today’s…

Reflection We talked about advertisement this week. It is an attractive topic to me and I really enjoyed the discussion in class, which is about the influence of advertisement on women. Both of the article---Two ways a woman can get hurt: advertisement and violence and the video we watched in class are take the position of advertising may hurt woman. Personally I agree with their opinions. Advertisement has influenced people for many years. It also affects our aesthetic of…

persuade the world that looking “perfect” is so simple if you simply try their new “diet” and “healthy” versions of all types of snacks and beverages has taken a toll on society. An example of this type of advertising is visibly illustrated in the, “new skinny can” ad for Diet Pepsi. The Pepsi ad provides an image in people’s minds which portrays how while drinking soda, your visual appearance can still look stunning, this ad deliberately uses a compelling image that draws the audience in. The…

for little girls. A woman named Justina Sharp says that “adult issues should not be put on a toy or little girl”. But they are wrong. Barbie is teaching little girls that being skinny and “well proportioned” in some bodily areas is how to get a good life. Barbie toys teach that little girls just need to pretty and skinny to get a good house and a husband, they don’t need to work for anything. And worst of all, Barbie has lead to many females becoming anorexic so they can be “perfect” just like…

with accepting myself. Society teaches women to be ashamed of their bodies. They learn to believe that they aren’t beautiful if they are not skinny. Shaming women for the number of pounds they weigh not only damages their self-esteem, but it also brings about a notion that “fat” people will be “forever alone”. As well, one could argue that being “too skinny” is also…

Society’s Standards The sublest stroke of hair beautifully whooshing in the wind, wrinkles, disappearing without a trace, body reaching complete perfection, youthful and skinny. This is what photoshopping does, it creates a false reality. As time progresses, youth and thin becomes an more appealing to the public. This new mindset masks philosophy of the past, wherein bodies had no restricted beauty expectations. In the article, “Magazine Publishing,” by Philip Soundy Unwin, George Unwin and…

My brother One night my brothers best friend has having a concert. So they were there having a good time and all of a sudden these guys pop out and wanted to take his best friend's girlfriend and my brother goes over there to see what was happening and my brother removed his girlfriend from the situation well his best friend was performing. After my brother came back in, he swung on the guy after they started to fight but then a little bit after the guys friends jumped in. They all started…

and Elizabeth Taylor. Body image was more influenced by Hollywood and its celebrities than ever. Women were expected to have curves, slim waists, large breasts and an hourglass body shape. There was hip and rear padding to ‘round out’ figures and skinny women often took weight supplements to gain weight. Women were expected to have flawless skin and sweetheart neckline and circle skirts were used to achieve a soft voluptuous silhouette. For men in the 1950s Body image covered our major areas…