Controversy's 'Barbie Doll'

After reading "Barbie Doll," I cannot help but agree with the argument in which the author is trying to make. To be a woman in today's day and age means always being told how you should dress and act based on society's standards. There is so much controversy concerning how women should appear, and this is due in part to the media's depiction of how a woman should look. The ideal woman used to have curves, but now women are expected to have a super tiny waist but still have larger breast and a large but; these are standards with which woman have had a nearly impossible time to meet. Between new diet and workout plans, it is easy for a woman to get mixed up with an unhealthy lifestyle of starving herself and exercising too much which leads to
detrimental health effects all well she believes that she was helping herself to look like the women she sees in magazines. The point that the author is trying to get across is that woman in today's society are constantly being exposed to standards with which they cannot compete with, and this often harms not only their physical health but their mental health as well.