Do women not realize how photoshopped all these women actually are? It has been said that the media keeps only about 10 to 15% of a woman's actual look. They fake everything else with photoshop. So all these perfect women that everyone sees smattered across dozens of magazine covers and plastered across billboards across America are actually not even real people. Theyre all fake. These fake excuses of women have made women think so badley of themselves that some would rather kill themselves than be alive. Is that okay that media is the cause for women to think that badley of themselves? Of course not, and it needs to be stopped.
As times have gone on and media has become a common source of entertainment and information, a connection has surfaced between eating disorders and media consumption. Women in todays age are dying to be thin, when in reality they are really just dying. From an early age, girls are exposed to images and messages that reinforce the idea that to be happy and successful [they] must be thin (Media Influence, par. 1). With this idea fixed into their minds at such an early age, they begin the downward spiral towards eating disorders. Because media is supreme and inescapable, little girls fear gaining weight to avoid shame and exclusion. Some adolescent girls have even reported being more afraid of gaining weight than getting cancer, losing their parents, or nuclear war (Media Influence, par. 3). As a society that constantly sits in front of the television, it is difficult to teach children that it is what is on the inside that counts when the media directly contradicts this. Overweight characters on television are more often seen as lazy, unpopular, or the bad guy, while thin women are portrayed as successful, powerful, and sexy (The Media, par. 3). These complex disorders that the media pushes women towards are characterized by each woman suffering with low self-esteem, [and] an inability to cope with their own emotions and stress.
