Body Image In Today's Society
Body Image in Today’s Society
West Shore Community College
Abstract
This paper looks at they way body image affects women’s lives, caused by the media. Women in today’s society always want to change the way they look. This paper looks at different ways the media affects these women. Like through everyday exposure, and so on. Then it talks about the way women perceive themselves can affect their relationships, and sexual relations. It then goes on to talk about how women want to become a size zero like they see all these models are. But they are only a size eight. Well they go on these fad diets that are only short-term weight loss goals, and many of these diets don’t work. Also women spend billions on makeup in their lifetime just to alter the way the look to look “beautiful.” They want to look the way society thinks they need to.
Body Image in Today’s Society
You’re fat. You’re ugly. You’re not good enough.
That statement society hears, or thinks day in, and day out. That feeling of seeing so much go on in the media, in your family, in yourself. Feeling like you have to be better than what you already are. Seeing media distort your image of what’s beautiful, relationships depends on what is thought about what people look like, women try weight loss …show more content…
It tells you about different studies people have done on how the correlation between body image and relationships is. It states how if you have a positive body image you will have a happy relationship, but if you have a negative body image chances are you’ll have a not so happy relationship. This article has a couple of other sources within in it, but I feel it is quite reliable. I enjoyed this article and found it quite interesting because I never even thought about this correlation between body image and
West Shore Community College
Abstract
This paper looks at they way body image affects women’s lives, caused by the media. Women in today’s society always want to change the way they look. This paper looks at different ways the media affects these women. Like through everyday exposure, and so on. Then it talks about the way women perceive themselves can affect their relationships, and sexual relations. It then goes on to talk about how women want to become a size zero like they see all these models are. But they are only a size eight. Well they go on these fad diets that are only short-term weight loss goals, and many of these diets don’t work. Also women spend billions on makeup in their lifetime just to alter the way the look to look “beautiful.” They want to look the way society thinks they need to.
Body Image in Today’s Society
You’re fat. You’re ugly. You’re not good enough.
That statement society hears, or thinks day in, and day out. That feeling of seeing so much go on in the media, in your family, in yourself. Feeling like you have to be better than what you already are. Seeing media distort your image of what’s beautiful, relationships depends on what is thought about what people look like, women try weight loss …show more content…
It tells you about different studies people have done on how the correlation between body image and relationships is. It states how if you have a positive body image you will have a happy relationship, but if you have a negative body image chances are you’ll have a not so happy relationship. This article has a couple of other sources within in it, but I feel it is quite reliable. I enjoyed this article and found it quite interesting because I never even thought about this correlation between body image and