H. P. E Body Image Assessment Piece

595 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Pornography and the effects

H.P.E Body Image Assessment Piece
The popular media; being television, movies and magazines, have increasingly held up a thinner and thinner body image as the ideal for women and masculine bodies for men. This is a problem caused by social media’s portrayal of ‘the ideal appear’, however this is only one aspect of the body image issue; others include the advertising company’s photo-shopping every picture to construct people desire to purchase their merchandise. The majority of these companies is promoting their clothes, accessories, fitness and cosmetics. This has affected people all around the world for the reason that human beings deem that it is crucial to be such as every photo-shopped figure that is advertised in the majority of every fitness, beauty or clothing product. The last point that will be discussed in this essay will be …show more content…

The media portrays girls as scrawny, by doing this it has damaged several girls’ self esteem levels and has altered the way people perceive and respond to their own and others body image. This has harmed masses of people in extreme ways such as disorders and mental illnesses and even death. It has also caused bullying which has also damaged and separated several people. The girls might have worried about being "bikini-prepared" each Spring as soon as the bathing suit magazines would hit the shelf furthermore the boys may have completed several additional push-ups after seeing football players, ABS in the sports magazine, however social networks have kids exposed to a steady talking of bikini bodies, six-pack ABS, and exact hair all day and night. And it's not just famous peoples' impelling idealized images of human flawlessness, but teens posting portraits of themselves for others to remark on and gossip about. Countless of these instances are captured apparently unintentional, escalating kids' unease about appearing

Show More
Related

  • Body Image Exploratory

    786 Words  | 2 Pages

    Today in modern society, we are driven by social forces. The media plays such a pivotal role in what we buy, eat, wear, etc. that we are conditioning ourselves to fit the mold for the “perfect” or “ideal” body type. This social construct has been a pressing issue for many years regarding the negative effects it has had on the female physique, but not as much has been said on behalf of men. What negative effects do the media have on male body image? When confronted with appearance based advertisements, men are more likely to experience both physical insecurities and emotional issues related to body image. This paper will address these facets of the media’s negative

    Read More

  • Perfection In Hawthorne's The Birth Mark

    798 Words  | 2 Pages

    Societal constructs of bodily perfection have a massive influence on both genders and on all ages. If you look at any magazine, you will see women constantly being compared to each other, whether it is in the “who wore it better” section or in the “do’s and don’ts” part of the magazine, comparing body images and overall appearances. All parts of the media that encompasses our daily lives are especially dangerous for young and impressionable teens because they see people being torn down for trying to express themselves, and are thus taught to not only don’t look like “don’ts”, but also look like the “do’s”. This is dangerous in that women in the magazine set very high standards that teens want to emulate, no matter the cost to themselves or their health. Celebrities have the benefit of media to make them appear perfect: Photoshop and makeup artists conceal the imperfections that are often too apparent to the naked eye. Viewing celebrities as exhibiting the ideal look or as idols will, in most cases, only damage the confidence of both young teens, and adults, and warp the reality of what true “beauty” really is. It makes teens never feel truly content with themselves because they will be aiming for an ideal that is physically impossible to attain and one that doesn’t exist in the real

    Read More

  • White Washed World

    767 Words  | 2 Pages

    Media is a wide term that covers many information sources including, television, movies, advertisement, books, magazines, and the internet. It is from this wide variety of information that women receive cues about how they should look. The accepted body shape and has been an issue affecting the population probably since the invention of mirrors but the invention of mass media spread it even further. Advertisements have been a particularly potent media influence on women’s body image, which is the subjective idea of one's own physical appearance established by observation and by noting the reactions of others. In the case of media, it acts as a super peer that reflects the ideals of a whole society. Think of all the corsets, girdles, cosmetics, hair straighteners, hair curlers, weight gain pills, and diet pills that have been marketed over the years. The attack on the female form is a marketing technique for certain industries. According to Sharlene Nag...

    Read More

  • Media Influence On Girls Essay

    1494 Words  | 3 Pages

    The media uses means such as social media, magazines, and television to influence people, specifically teenagers. Adolescence can be a confusing time for everyone, but teenage girls are more vulnerable to their influence due to their emotional maturity. Although girls currently believe that this impossible body image is expected of them, they develop eating disorders because of it. For example, the Victoria's secret fashion show and underwear commercials help set up the impossible beauty standard all girls and women are trying to achieve. Those models live by a strict diet and exercise routine plus their photos are manipulated in order to look the way they do. If models don't look thin enough, they will “frequently have collarbones, ribs, and even hips erased to make them look thinner (Body Image-Photo Manipulation).” Magazines are also a huge part of media's influence. It is common to find teenage girls reading fashion magazines. One issue of the popular magazine, Vogue, “was found to contain 144 manipulated images, including the cover (Body Image-Photo Manipulation).” It is normal to be conce...

    Read More

  • Media And Social Media, Adolescents, And The Media

    1806 Words  | 4 Pages

    Research shows “that regular readers of fashion and beauty magazines in early adolescence are more likely to suffer from a distorted body image during their teenage years” (“Children, Adolescents and the Media”), when they read beauty magazines they read articles and tips of how to look better and they try to them all to look and feel better about themselves. Research shows that “more than three-quarters of girls repot that television influenced their body image” (Mascarelli). Social media influences how we act and what we do Amanda Swartz once stated “Social media and mass media influence the way we react and interact with our world and potentially influence the perception of our own body image” (Mulliniks). In today’s worlds there are more ways to access websites to promote body image as a positive thing, “On the internet, there are now more than 100 pro anorexia websites that not only encourage disordered eating but offer specific advice on purging, severely restricting calories intake, and exercising excessively” (“Children, Adolescents and the Media”). It’s not a bad thing to eat healthy and work out to be fit and healthy but it’s another thing to eat less and work out excessively. Teens always compare themselves to others, either their peers, models and celebrities, “People are on Facebook or Instagram and they’re constantly comparing themselves to other people” (Mulliniks). Also reality television shows, show only the glamorous about what is happening, like “when teen moms become celebrities, the message to avoid teen pregnancy is lost” (Kroll). When teens watch shows like Teen Mom they don’t see the entire negative about becoming pregnant as a teen they see that the teen mom got famous and is on the show. Social media, media, magazines, and TV give teen’s unrealistical facts about body image, pregnancy and

    Read More

  • How Does Advertising Shape Body Image

    1186 Words  | 3 Pages

    Advertisers create images people think are the most appealing based on their targeted audience. For example, in the documentary, Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women Now, Jean Kilbourne sheds light on how advertisers use unrealistic, distorted images to reach their target audience. Kilbourne showed a video on how Photoshop is used to turn a normal woman into the “perfect” woman used in ads. This shapes how women view their own body images because they want to be like the women used on billboards. This does not exclude men. According to Fabio Parasecoli, there is a growing regard on the muscular body which increases the pressure on men to take better care of their bodies. This in part has to do with advertising and how advertisers portray the ideal man and how, “many of the advertising pages in these magazines (Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Muscle and Fitness) often play with a sense of inadequacy.” (Parasecoli 189). An example is the Old Spice commercial, which features a very toned, good looking male talking to the camera, (female members of the audience) telling them to look at him and then to look at their “man” and how if their man uses Old Spice they can look like him. This is clearly shaping how men look at their own body’s because they want to look like the ideal male. Advertisers distort images and use these “ideal” people to display their product to sell, but really its shaping how people view their own body in a negative way. Although advertisements have now become a big part of body image, people’s views strongly stem from their personal

    Read More

  • The Effects of Media on the Body-Image of Preadolescent Girls

    1991 Words  | 4 Pages

    These advertisers promote a body image that is completely unrealistic and impossible to achieve (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006b). It has been instilled in these advertisers’ minds that a thinner model will sell more (Hargreaves & Tiggemann, 2003). Media has a direct and indirect influence on the developing body image of young girls.... ... middle of paper ...

    Read More

  • Unrealistic Body Images

    1147 Words  | 3 Pages

    The most fashionable, sought after magazines in any local store are saturated with beautiful, thin women acting as a sexy ornament on the cover. Commercials on TV feature lean, tall women promoting unlimited things from new clothes to as simple as a toothbrush. The media presents an unrealistic body type for girls to look up to, not images we can relate to in everyday life. When walking around in the city, very few people look like the women in commercials, some thin, but nothing similar to the cat walk model. As often as we see these flawless images float across the TV screen or in magazines, it ...

    Read More

  • Female Body Image and the Mass Media

    947 Words  | 2 Pages

    In conclusion it is possible to see how the media promotes a physical and psychological disease among women through the usage of unrealistic body images as it urges them to change their bodies, buy “enhancing” products, and redefine their opinions. Such statements may appear to be ridiculous, but for young women who are seeking to perfect their body according to how the media portrays “good looks” it is the basis for corruption. Confidence, contentment and healthy living are the keys to a perfect and unique body image and no amount of money can advertise or sell as genuine a treatment as this.

    Read More

  • Peer Competition and Women's Body Image

    1084 Words  | 3 Pages

    It has been said time and time again that media heavily influences the desassinate body image, may women and girls encounter. Previous studies have shown how over exposure to the hyper-sexualized ads and images in the media lead to a distortion of body image in women and girls. However, there is yet another factor that influences the decline of body image just as much. Peer competition has been shown to contribute to this decline as well. Peer competition is a rivalry for supremacy amongst those of the same age group or social group.

    Read More

  • Marilyn Monroe Body Image

    979 Words  | 2 Pages

    A lot of people don’t agree with the fashion media when it portrays images of what is supposed to be the “ideal body” but the problem they have is that the rest of the world does and because of that, people are not excepting of other body shapes and sizes (San Francisco State University 1988). Whether people choose to pay attention to the advertisements and media is up to them, but even if they don’t, they will never be able to completely escape it. From billboards to magazine covers waiting in line at the grocery store, people will be exposed to the messages they are sending. The fashion industry has embodied certain acceptable and unacceptable codes and conventions and has created new rules for the fashion world and they expect everyone to follow them (Craik 1994, 5). According to the Better Business Bureau a typical high fashion model will be between 5’9” and 6’, weigh no more than 130 pounds, have long legs, wide set eyes and blemish free skin.

    Read More

  • Appearance And Physical Appearance

    709 Words  | 2 Pages

    The obsession with the pursuit of physical perfection, dissatisfaction with one's body, reached an intolerable limit. Images on marketing, advertising and the media ad nauseum invade us a...

    Read More

  • Media is Sending the Wrong Message to Our Children

    874 Words  | 2 Pages

    Another strong influence on these young children would be the media. Magazines, TV, and movies can all potentially send the wrong message. Although there is a push against it, many magazines still feature adds with very thin, sometimes underweight, models. The girls reading those magazines or even just looking at the pictures, may now want to base their looks and body appearance off of that model. Recent surveys have shown that half of girls, ages eight to twelve, want to look like the people in the media and about thirty-two percent are worried about their bodies (Day). However, this could be very dangerous. According to Martina M Cartwright, when you emphasize physical perfection, adult body dissatisfaction and the possibility of an eating disorder become a greater risk for young girls (Child Beauty Pageants 'About Parents Feeling Good, Not Kids'). Same thing goes for TV images and movies. They also have a huge impact on children and the kinds of things they internalize as far as what might be normal for looks and behavior (Day).

    Read More

  • Teenage Girls and Body Image

    1282 Words  | 3 Pages

    By pushing an ideal body type that is uncommon and untrue to life, girls strive, and struggle to obtain this image. When the mass media only shows one type of body as desirable, they are alienating every girl who does not fit into that category. Pushing these ideal bodies onto teenage girls at an important developmental time in their lives can be detrimental to their bodies and their self-worth. By showing what a girl should look like, the mass media is damaging the body image of young girls, and unless awareness is raised, could become more and more adverse on young women today and tomorrow.

    Read More

  • The Social Concept of Beauty

    1061 Words  | 3 Pages

    One component of the media is advertisements. Often they not only sell products, but also sell images, values, and concepts of sexuality. They stereotype what we should look like and what is considered "normal." This includes perfect skin, washboard abdomens, tall and thin legs, a big chest, and overall a beautiful, perfect body. Advertisers target young girls because they are very vulnerable and sensitive at the age during adolescence. What the advertiser does not either realize or care about is the fact that girls take it to heart that they are not good enough and are unworthy. I look at an advertisement of Naomi Campbell and think, "How can she be that thin at her height?" What the media neglects to tell us is that her hips are computerized to look smaller than they really are. By laws of physics, if they were actually that small, she would be unab...

    Read More

More about H. P. E Body Image Assessment Piece

Open Document