nedeľa 8. mája 2011

Thinness and body image in the media- educational article #2


Women’s main duty is to stay always young and being young is according to media inseparable from being beautiful and that means to be thin.  A perfect example of this type of woman is Barbie. All of us know how she looks like but did you know that if Barbie was a real woman, she would have to walk on all four due to her propositions? So why is this image of totally unhealthy woman so popular and displayed in all kinds of media? The answer is indeed very easy; the economic. According to media activist, Jean Kilbourne, “Women are sold to the diet industry by the magazines we read and the television programs we watch, almost all of which make us feel anxious about our weight.” It is fact that all media reinforce the “beauty” of almost skinny body as a most important measure of a woman’s worth. Unfortunately, who is thin is according to advertising that rules the entire marketplace “in”.  http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm

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