Impact of Media on the Body Image of Girls

Impact of Media on the Body Image of Girls

Introduction

In today's society, which is highly influenced by media, beauty is represented by faces with features "flawless" body and "perfect". Attention devoted to this subject by the media poses a challenge to teenagers about their image of themselves, and can also affect self-esteem and cause eating disorders and depression in young adults. Personally, I could see the difference made by the media in the lives of teenagers; some classmates had a poor opinion of themselves because of their weight or their traits. I think the media should enhance the true beauty of the girls rather than putting forward unrealistic beauty changed thanks to modern technology (Grabe et.al, 2008, pp.460-476).

Nowadays, the media play a significant role in society, and change the image we have of ourselves. It is difficult to say that they also take decisions on our behalf about our way of thinking, especially since with the advances in technology; one can not escape the media. Today, body image is based on the standards set by the media. The importance they give to physical attraction and unrealistic body shapes can cause an average teenage low self esteem because she'll think she should lose weight to look like models or visible most advertisements. We could run a campaign that helps girls to feel beautiful in their body and they show behind the scenes photo shoots and commercials (Field et.al, 1999, pp.754-760).

Discussion

Girls face daily a continuous bombardment of destructive messages about their bodies. Media images they teach (and us) that their appearance is the most important thing to them, and above all, that their appearance is never good enough. Because these messages are employ more girls with their looks than with the skills they have in real life, and emaciated, while they struggle to look like the ideal image that they have learned to admire, to girls damaging both physically and mentally. The 40 billion dollar diet industry produces continuously a stream of great attention in the media place images that rotate as the "average" woman looks like. In reality, the models in advertisements are much thinner than normal girls and women, and girls trying to look like these models are too often the victims of eating disorder epidemic sweeping through our society (Milkie, 1999, pp.190-210).

The ever-thinner-is-better standard hurts us all. Why? Because of the fact that it keeps us from ourselves to deal with the really important things, and it leads people towards a feeling in which they disregard their own unique and wonderfully diverse female body, it draws us $ 40 billion a year out of their pockets, it can take several women dress size in a big beauty contest against each other, instead of us to unite against the forces that oppress us all. We must prevent that. The diet industry and the doctors who are dependent on it, their values to our daughters, nieces, granddaughters and all the girls pass in our ...