Female Body Image

The media is a social institution that came from societal shifts such as the evolution of the traditional family unit and the displacement of gender roles (Conner). The media has always shown what it feels is beautiful body image. The definition of body image “is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind (What Is Body Image).” Which has made women like Ronda Rousey feel bad about their body image. The media has brainwashed people to think they must look a certain way.

In the essay Pressure To Conform there are many societal points covered that women face every day in regards to their looks. She covers the media stand point as well as the medical stand point. Many of the things she talks about I see and hear women talk about every day. In her thesis statement she points out the “the twin obsession of thinness and indulgence” (p-222). I agree whole heartedly that magazines and media are one of the biggest factors in why women face so many body image issues in today’s society.

The majority of girls in today’s society have looked at a model in a magazine or on television and wished they looked like them. The media presented in this generation has impacted women on how they feel towards their body image. Media presents unrealistic women as the “ideal,” making this culture of girls feel dissatisfied with themselves. This is a problem because with plenty of girls already feeling unsatisfied with their body, by using unrealistic models, it creates a further problem with wanting to change themselves by doing dangerous actions such as eating disorders. It’s difficult to cut out the media impact but surely, something can be changed.

This constant fixation on physical perfection has created unreasonable beauty standards for women, ones we cannot possibly achieve on our own. Such standards permeate all forms of popular media, particularly fashion magazines and advertisements. Women are bombarded with the notion that we must be thin in order to be desirable. These images project an

Social media plays a big role in how society portrays body image. “Alternatively, an increased number of Facebook friends may provide girls with greater opportunity to rapidly make multiple social comparisons, itself shown to be associated with body image concern”(Tiggemann and Slater 82). According to the survey that was taken by Marika Tiggemann and Amy Slater, the more Facebook friends the girls had, the more likely it was that they had body image concerns. They were able to compare themselves to the other girls that they were friends with, which led to them to have an increase in their drive for thinness. “Further, these comparisons are likely to be with somewhat idealised images, in that girls mostly post photographs in which they look good or are doing something ‘cool’ (and can be digitally altered)”(Tiggemann and Slater 82).

As made apparent in “The Appetite as Voice”, there were certainly negative pressures about body image that had emerged “before there was Twiggy” (Joan Jacobs Brumberg). Clearly the media can not be to blame for all of the pressure that has an impact on one’s construction of their view on body image. Although it is apparent that the media has the power to pressure people to think differently about their body image, there is a finicky line between this being a negative or positive

Social media is a common medium for people communicate and get information. The society also has concerns about social media can bring significant influence to users. One criticism of social media will be the social media, such as Instagram, is promoting unhealthy image or representation of the female. Media content always emphasizes the ideal body of the female. Most of the famous Instagrammers are also with a thinner body or slim curve.

Body image is affecting women 's everyday lives. By gloating about other’s imperfections, you could cause them to affect their well-being and even cause them to have mental health issues. People all around society bully people verbally and physically, just because they think they look wrong and they don 't fit in society. In fact in New Zealand, we are one of the top countries to

Whether it’s magazine covers, instagram, twitter, on television or just on the world wide web in general, everywhere we look we see stunning models. Models that are incredibly thin and can look good in anything. Our society is obsessed with how perfect they look, yet at the end of the day women everywhere looks in the mirror and doesn’t see the body of the girl she sees on social media. Even though women come in all shapes and sizes in nature, the expectation to have a skinny, perfect body just seems to be the expectation for our society nowadays. Society puts too much pressure on females to have the perfect body.

The media creates a negative impact on women. The media portray women as thin, attractive, and sexy. Females struggle with their bodies, because of the mass media and how it depicts women. Due to the media, many women and young teenagers go to the extremes to meet this body image, many leading to health concerns. With that, many women encounter eating disorders, because they want to look like the women shown in the media.

Every day women across the globe are bombarded by the appearance of "flawless" and "perfect" celebrities on many media platforms, such as the internet, magazines, and television. As a result, many campaigns have unrealistic for women to embrace their bodies and combat the unrealistic standards of beauty in today's society. The emphasis on such unrealistic standards from media outlets has statistically shown to have a negative impact on women and the way they view themselves when they are compared to societies' depiction of beauty. Unfortunately, unrealistic standards aren’t just promoted by media outlets instead over time they have been embedded in today’s society. For example, Many young girls around the world grow up around Barbies, yet have you ever considered the kind of body image the doll promotes?

In today’s society, the younger generations are focused on their body image and of others compared to generations in previous years. Many are very conscious about how their appearance is and have a created a stereotypical image for the average male and female. Also, many have become judgemental and prejudice towards other because of their body image, not personality and behaviors. Today, many people will put down others because of their body image.

The main points is: Humans have feeling; Humans have thinking; Humans have social media. Nancy Clark, who wrote for American Fitness, states that “comparing yourself to your friends, and friends of friends, on social media can easily put you in a bad mood, harboring negative thoughts about your body.” It is a quite evident why people go to social media, not all, but many. Many would never admit how social media really affects them mentally and emotionally. The risk factors of social media vs body image are frequently overlooked, npt by a variety of authors writing for International Journal Of Eating Disorders, they constructed and experiment to test out the effects of social media on, specifically, young girls; “Results showed that girls who regularly shared images on social media, relative to those who did not, reported significantly higher overvaluation of shape and weight, body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and internalization of the thin

This pressures specifically girls to look like “models” no matter how pretty the are, forcing them to go to drastic measures such as starving themselves, putting loads of makeup on, etc. and can’t learn to except who they are. It is clear that social media has changed the standards of beauty. This is perfectly exemplified in the following passage, “We argue that, because people care about the image they present to close friends on social networks, social network use enhances self-esteem in users who are focused on close friends (i.e., strong ties) while browsing their social network”(Hufffingtonpost.com). It is evident that social media has upped the standards of beauty to the point where they can no longer be replicated in real

Today everyone is obsessed with social media. People are easily influenced by almost everything they come across on the internet including appearance and body image. In todays generation it is so common to be unhappy with the way you look. All this is due to societies high standards on the way we “should” look. With social media you can do many things, including pretending to be someone you are not.