In today’s modern day media women are
portrayed a certain way, to look a certain way, to act a certain way, so they
can be appealing to the viewer. All women on T.V advertisement’s are pencil
thin, white with perfect hair makeup and clothes, all half naked and made to
look like a brainless sex toy, used purposefully to attract the male audience into
buying a product. “According to TV ratings company
Nielsen, kids in 2012, age 2 to 11, watch an average of 24 hours of TV a week.
That’s an average of three and a half hours a day” (CBS Minnesota, Feb 13,
2013) When one lives in a society as immersed in media as us modern day
Americans, you cannot help seeing the way that women are portrayed. It is
everywhere! Young girls and teenagers are negatively affected by it because as
they come to glimpses of what the real world is like they will start to compare
themselves to this unattainable figure and face. For young women trying to
measure up there can only be negative effects, such as eating disorders, lower
self esteem, and lower GPA’S. The future does not look to positive for rising
generations in the youth of today or tomorrow.
“I worry about how much
pressure my daughters feel. In a society that features anorexic actresses and
models and television stars, we get conditioned to think this is what women
should look like.”(Katie Couric,
Missrepresentation) Speaking from personal experience, I know how emotionally traumatic
it is to feel like you are nowhere near good enough because you constantly
compare yourself to other people. I partly blame the media for the downward
spiral that happened in my life as a result of being different than the models,
actresses, and singers that are the “idols” for most of the young people now.
It is a dark place, feeling that no one will ever want you because you don’t
weigh 99.8 pounds. ”The average 14 and 15, height only increases to 63-64 inches but weight
increases to 105-115 pounds. By age 16 and 17, girls' height has basically
become static at 64 inches and weighs only increases to somewhere between 115
and 120 pounds. Between 18 and 20, girls are still an average of 64 inches tall
and weigh between 125 and 130 pounds.” (LIVESTRONG, weight of teens) “Twenty years ago, the average fashion model weighed 8
percent less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23
percent less, it said. When asked for its source, the magazine cited the
website of Rader Programs, which treats those with eating disorders.” Women should never
have to compare themselves to an
unhealthy size and weight, however in today’s society women do not have a
choice.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/most-models-meet-criteria-for-anorexia-size-6-is-plus-size-magazine/
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/362617-the-average-weight-height-of-teens/#ixzz2PzETFITL
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/02/18/good-question-how-much-time-do-kids-spend-watching-tv/
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