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The Real Image
Throughout the decades, media has expanded above the horizons. With advanced image editing software, the advertising industry has hit its peak on what each and every company want to portray audience to. Not just a perfect body, face, and complexion, the insecurity, self-esteem issues, and suicide, comes together in a package in which the cost is expensive. In November of 2000, the Campbell Soup Company launched a series of new ads for its television campaign. The ad included little boys and girls. The boys offered soup to the girls, while they declined it stating the reason, for they are watching their weight! That commercial immediately captured attention of many, for the concern of pre-pubescent girls already thinking about managing their weight at such young age(Perfect Illusions, 2000). The previous example is the exact reason, which proves my point on how media influences the society in a bad way. What factors of media contribute to strictly influencing our society? What should be done to ease the process? What kind of harm is the media bringing to the table for young women, teenagers, and adults? To get rid of the tragic messages, we all need to love ourselves more each day, and should not compare our bodies to the models on the TV screen.
How is our body image and self-esteem impacted by Photoshop images? Your body image and self-esteem are intimately tied together, especially in women, but increasingly for the male body too. Increasingly more women and men are dieting to improve their self-esteem and it comes about from the media and body image distortions. But what images are we buying into when we start to diet, what are we thinking is relative to body image and self-esteem? And, are they realistic? Those are questions we may not have stopped to ask ourselves. What about all those Photoshop images we see in the magazines, billboards, and on the television plastered everywhere? Somehow we all let them affect our outlook on our bodies in
Throughout the decades, media has expanded above the horizons. With advanced image editing software, the advertising industry has hit its peak on what each and every company want to portray audience to. Not just a perfect body, face, and complexion, the insecurity, self-esteem issues, and suicide, comes together in a package in which the cost is expensive. In November of 2000, the Campbell Soup Company launched a series of new ads for its television campaign. The ad included little boys and girls. The boys offered soup to the girls, while they declined it stating the reason, for they are watching their weight! That commercial immediately captured attention of many, for the concern of pre-pubescent girls already thinking about managing their weight at such young age(Perfect Illusions, 2000). The previous example is the exact reason, which proves my point on how media influences the society in a bad way. What factors of media contribute to strictly influencing our society? What should be done to ease the process? What kind of harm is the media bringing to the table for young women, teenagers, and adults? To get rid of the tragic messages, we all need to love ourselves more each day, and should not compare our bodies to the models on the TV screen.
How is our body image and self-esteem impacted by Photoshop images? Your body image and self-esteem are intimately tied together, especially in women, but increasingly for the male body too. Increasingly more women and men are dieting to improve their self-esteem and it comes about from the media and body image distortions. But what images are we buying into when we start to diet, what are we thinking is relative to body image and self-esteem? And, are they realistic? Those are questions we may not have stopped to ask ourselves. What about all those Photoshop images we see in the magazines, billboards, and on the television plastered everywhere? Somehow we all let them affect our outlook on our bodies in
Cited: 1. Perfect Illusions. PBS. Eating Disorders. http://www.pbs.org/perfectillusions/eatingdisorders/preventing_media.html November 2003. 2. Ralph Lauren’s Ridiculous Photoshop; More Ridiculous Rage. Jezebel Online Magazine. http://jezebel.com/5376418/ralph-laurens-ridiculous-photoshop-more-ridiculous-rage October, 2009. 3. Bump Shack. Andy Roddick Speaks out on doctored image. http://bumpshack.com/2007/05/26/andy-roddick-speaks-out-on-doctored-mag-cover/ May 26, 2007. 4. Submission Stream. Jersey Shore: Taking Over America. http://siteslab.org/pitjournal/node/598 February 3, 2011.