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In today’s society, it’s getting
harder and harder for women to live up to impossibly high expectations that
have been set. Women are constantly compared to celebrities that we have only
seen airbrushed in magazines, drowning in thick layers of makeup, and dressed
from head to toe in designer clothes. Does this seem fair? Not exactly. So many
women in the world today suffer from low self-esteem issues and lack of
confidence because of these comparisons and the fact that they feel that they
cannot live up to the standards. Although facial beauty and style are parts of these
issues, they are not the only problems.
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When it comes to body size, the
standards for girls are even worse. Starting at ages as young as five or six
girls are shown a glimpse of what society expects their body to look like when
they enter teenage years. This is shown through the simple use of Barbie dolls.
Barbie’s body proportions are completely different than the average women’s
body size and it has been proven that her small feet and tiny ankles wouldn’t
even be able to support her own body weight. It doesn’t stop at Barbie though
and as the young girls grow older, they see the expectations more and more.
Even just flipping through a magazine on a regular basis can have any girl
begin to feel ‘fat’ or ‘overweight’ because of how tiny the model’s look.
Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is a great example of how society glamour’s over
women who look like they haven’t ate in a year and weigh about 90 pounds .
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Models, magazines, fashion shows,
Barbie dolls, and much more are all horrible contributors to the
large numbers of eating disorders in America
today. It’s clear that women come in all shapes and sizes, yet society
continues to make girls feel like small is the only acceptable one. It’s
important to maintain a healthy weight but even more important to not be sucked
in by societies standards and go to extremes to live up to them. Just because a
girl doesn’t look like a Victoria ’s
Secret model, or like the ladies on a cover of a magazine, does not mean she is
not a healthy and beautiful woman. It is very possible that some time in the future,
society will begin to form more realistic standards, but I wouldn’t hold my
breath.
I couldn't agree more with your post! It is very close to what I wrote in my blog. It seems this weight issue as been going on for a while and to more girls then average. I think young girls and even woman look at Photoshopped pictures or even regular pictures of celebrities and we want to be just like them. That's when extreme dieting, anorexia, depression and self consciousness comes into play. We just have to except how we are and be happy with our own body. If we aren't happy then what else matters?
ReplyDeleteI also agree with the idea that society has unreasonable goals for women when it comes to appearance, but I think it also extends to their attitude and behavior as well. We're expected to conform to the beauty ideals put forth by Hollywood that are unrealistic and most of the time very unhealthy. There's an prevalent attitude that we need to "love ourselves the way we are" but also "try to shed those extra holiday pounds!" You see it all the time on magazine covers. Women are given very mixed messages on how to feel about their bodies. We should love them, but also change them. It creates a sense of never being good enough.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with this post. I have a fourteen year old daughter that I have to tell every time, when she starts saying I'm fat, to remind her, that all the pictures she's looking at, are all airbrushed to make them look perfect. I think its so much harder for teens now days.
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