Body image myths
Body image can be
anything from weight, size, shape, hair and skin type. How does social media
portray these myths to women and what does it do for women’s esteem?
One type of social media that is mostly known for
marketing the myth of body image perfection is magazines. With the modeling,
and beauty magazines all portray women to have the ideal body image of very
thin women whom are not physically fit and they make every women think that is
what they should look like in order to look good. Social
and mass media create a perfect image look to women that they have to look have
beautiful skin or hair or have to be a certain size like the images of women
that you see in pictures on the internet or in magazines which creates the
pressure for women to want to look like this. When in real life these women
really don’t look that way, the pictures are airbrushed to create that perfect
image look, and this look is also very unhealthy and unrealistic (Unknown,
2012).
Some other
myths about body image include; a positive body image means you’re also
impervious to societal and media messages. This means that you are resistant to
the messages that mass and social media are trying to tell you to lose weight.
The media is a strong force which can lead consumers into believing what they
should eat or drink in order to have a certain body type. The second myth about body image is; a deeply entrenched
negative body image won’t budge. This means that because so many women do not
like the way their body looks, we tend to think this a normal for any women to
think that way no matter what her body image is. However it is not normal
because it is not natural. We are made to think that way with both mass and
social media leading us to think that our bodies need to look a certain way
which makes it hard for women to like the way they look (Tartakovsky,
2011).
Reference Page
Tartakovsky, M. (2011). 3 body image myths we keep on believing.
Retrieved from
Unknown. (2012). Society, media, and body image. Retrieved
from
http://personalispolitical.tripod.com/soc1.html
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