Personal Body Image Research Paper

We live in a world surrounded by the media's images of beauty and sexuality. As consumers of marketplace goods we are all to often influenced to purchase beautification items and or goods in order to accomplish an individual feeling within ourselves. That very feeling within ourselves it what is today considered self-image. In today's culture the media's projections of beauty serve as recommendations of what our bodies should look like in order to be considered sexy or beautiful. This has brought forth dilemmas in society that were non-existent up until the recent popularity of social media websites. Although social media has the potential to be harmful in the sense of cyberbullying and the promotion and projection of the slim but curvy female
physique. However just as it can be said that it is doing harm by making women feel insecure with their bodies advertisements can also motivate and empower females of all ages to achieve a physique that makes them feel confident or comfortable with themselves.
Obsessions with personal body image can cause individuals to inflict both emotional and physical harm to themselves.
Harm that can cause eating disorders like anorexia and emotional disorders such as low self-esteem or depression. Although these self inflicted disorders are negative in their impacts on society as a whole. It is appeent that the younger generation of adults that proactively strive to achieve personal body satisfaction benefit greatly in terms of discipline and health. The positive impact of sexual advertisements it is often overlooked in the means of female empowerment.
The individuality and confidence that these women personally obtain by means of beautification is due to the prime examples set by advertisements and the media. The negativity is often projected and the positivity of improving one's body image is overlooked along with self beautification inspiring qualities on
life.
Our everyday lives are surrounded by judgment and acceptance by society. And the determination of those two qualifying factors are often associated with the way we look and act in the presence of others. From Greenwood press’s Women's Encyclopedia we can infer that physical attractiveness is state within oneself that is predominantly evident and stable throughout one's life. It is inferred that females are more self-perpetuating and discriminatory in regards to the way they their image is projected outward. The beauty characteristics that women often desire can and are also reasons for oppressions on the females within society when dealing with top positions in the workplace. Due to the large amount of stereotyping in our society it is not A-Typical to associate a beautiful woman with a high rank job or position. For that reason I believe that today's class of women are breaking the stereotypes in society and letting their beautification and self image empower them into high positions.
To serve as supplemental information the article titled “The relationship between social and personal variables” directly correlated with the personal aspect preference and opinion of beauty. Throughout the article there is an immediate and apparent connection with wellbeing and health associated with the qualitative states of life. As explained in the abstract of the work the term Body Image “is a photograph that we have of our body, together with its attributes and associated feelings” meaning that in context these views of ourselfs can both be associated with positive and negative feelings and attitudes. None the less the study was conducted in order to determine if a person's attitudes of body image can be correlated with social, economical, and political aspects of life. In turn it was concluded that in today's day and age one can improve their qualitative states of life by using their personal life to empower them and boost their confidence to a point where it empowers them to reach and achieve higher ranks and statuses throughout their lives. Although the quantitative data in the article turns out to be inconclusive due to unorganization in the data collection aspect of the study. The authors brings to light the elements of self-image that are often overlooked. And it is these elements of self image that every so often define us as humans in the very principles of life.
Personal body image often refers to the individuality and self projection an individual has of themselves.
This can apply to many different means of a person's everyday life. Because everyone had differences in preferences and attitudes toward their self image. Things like size, odor, sound, and personality. In the article Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting This source tells of how an individual's self expression of sexuality does not need to conform to the standards of society in the means of normality. The article explains that due to personal preferences and differences in sexual experience or exploitation there is a wide array of means of sexual expression. Due to the variety of social networking sites there is a community of people that are comfortable with exploiting their body's to others online for personal gratitude. This practice could be more easily explained as sexual self advertisement via means of social media. The authors of the article classify mainstream social media and use recent mainstream acronyms like NSFW to represent a class of criteria, media, and content that is “Not Safe For Work” or private adult information that would be detrimental to work life if it was in the hands of an employer. Websites such as Tumblr serve as a virtual playground for both men and women to gratify others and their personal physical and or sexual
achievements.
In today's society it is more common to use means of social media and self-shooting in order to form one's self image or an alternate image to their everyday life. As we live our lives and go through society with the same qualities and attributes that have been passed down through generation it is important for us to encompass our outer beauty in order for it to empower and influence us to always be better in the qualitative sense. What we sometimes have trouble with as a society is completely expressing and exemplifying our outer image. What i believe has solved the communication gap between all individuals is the self photography and personal projection of our qualities. Social media serves as the mediator for the narcissistic qualities we all posses. Social media can help individuals create an alter personality for a variety of different reasons whether it be for attraction of a sexual mate or flirtatious encounters. The most important fact is that social media can be directly related to body image satisfaction.