Body Image Media
The media influences and promotes the culture’s standards for body shape or size and importance of beauty. ... I contend that It is the media that is responsible for conditioning our society into believing that to be a successful happy person, you must be thin. And that the media sets standards on appearances that are impossible to meet. ... These young girls begin to compare themselves to an ideal that is unrealistic and therefore become obsessed with their own body image. Everything we see affects how we think and act, and because of the negative and stereotypical images created by the media women have regressed instead of progressed. ... Messages and information are learning through the media. ... The media reflects images of thinness to other symbols of prestige, happiness, and success. ... The results show that all subjects experienced the greatest pressure to be thin from the media, followed by peers then family. The current message pushed into our minds by media is that “thin is beautiful”. ... Image after image shows us a definition of beauty that invades our mind.