It is preposterous that an industry that is profoundly dominated by homosexuals decides what makes a woman beautiful and sexy. Everyone has seen women down the fashion runways and on the covers of magazines are often the epitome of beauty and thinness. We constantly see extremely thin models exploited to sell jeans and other female products. The drive to attain the suitable and acceptable image is exciting, but vying for the perfect image can be one of the most important aspects of life for some women. In turn, some women will begin to deprive themselves of food to sustain a preconceived notion of what a woman's appearance should entail.
Despite the sudden growth of eating disorders among women, fashion editors deny the notion that magazine advertisements induce strange eating habits among women. In addition, the constant exposure to the thin images of women spawn feelings of shame, worthlessness, and depression among women. In the survey by Wooley and Wooley (1984), 33,000 females aged 15 to 35 questioned regarding attitudes toward their bodies and their methods of weight control. Though only 25 percent were actually overweight according to weight norms, 75 percent believed that they were fat, with 18 percent using laxatives or diuretics to control their weight (Hanson137). It is extremely depressing that women allow themselves to feel dissatisfied with their own physical makeup. The fashion industry should be extremely guilty for encouraging the skeletal look as an ideal image. Eating disorders have an enormous effect on women's lives. Therefore, the fashion industry could make a positive change by obliterating emaciated models. The fashion industry fail to realize that all women are not tall and thin.
The quest for thinness is an integral part of society today. The message to be thin and successful has caused countless women to start diet, making the diet industry a multimillion business.