Ultra Thin Women

Today we are overcome with options to occupy every second of our waking life. Television, game consoles, smart phones, apps, movies and tablets are there to give us entertainment when we suffer from boredom. We all need a break occasionally, right? Yes, but this technology is consuming us. Plastered all over these different ways to cure boredom, are unrealistic expectations. Too-thin bodies, filtered faces, photoshopping to the extreme. Commercials and movies are over sexualizing women, making a woman’s worth based on her body. The overload of make-up adverts claiming to hide “imperfections,” various weight loss solutions and implanting the idea for average woman to keep up, yet they cannot. What does this mean for the younger generations?
I believe the primary reason for this growth stems from the media. Everywhere you look, you are filled with images of ultra-thin women, perfected by personal trainers, personal make-up artists, designers to dress them daily and the wonders of editing and photoshop. “Standards of beauty have in fact become harder and harder to attain, particularly for women. The current media ideal of thinness for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population” (Fox). The media regularly pushes the idea that life would be better and if one loses weight. They use phrases that infer that losing weight will get you attention from the opposite sex, or keep your significant other interested in you by doing these 6 workout methods… They are setting the bar for the world on what is deemed attractive and women and men alike take the bait – hook, line and sinker. This bar that’s been set is damaging in more ways than one. It not only damages mentally, but physically as well. “An idealization of thinness is positively correlated with body image dissatisfaction which is often accompanied by social anxiety, depression, eating disturbances, and poor self-esteem” (Yamamiya, Cash, Melnyk, Posavac,