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Women's bodies are products in this world, utilized to sell things such as cars, alcohol, food, and much more. Women are no longer people to be loved but put on top of an unreachable pedestal. The media knowingly takes advantages of women's insecurities and then plaster's who they wish they could be and what they wish they could look like on the big screen and in magazines. The American research group Anorexia Nervosa & Related Eating Disorders Inc founded that exposure to images of young, thin, airbrushed models is linked to loss of self-esteem, depression, and the development of unhealthy eating habits such as anorexia, bulimia, and bodydismorphic disorder. One out of every four college aged women use unhealthy methods to control their weight including skipping meals, purging, laxative abuse, vomiting, excessive working out, and vomiting (2).
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These images of the "perfect" woman that are emblazoned on everything in our society, is beyond unattainable to an impossible degree. Barbie is the quintessential image of perfection for young girls in our culture and yet if she were an actual human being, her back would be too weak to support the weight of her upper body, she would suffer from chronic diarrhea because her body is too narrow to contain more than half a liver and only a few centimeters of a bowl and she would eventually die from malnutrition. Jill Barad, the president of Mattel, estimated that 99 percent of girls between the ages three to ten, one at least one Barbie doll. These young girls are subconsciously taught that they must live up to this image of perfection when it is literally impossible for them too. This idea of the "perfect" woman doesn't exist (2).
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According to the Canadian Women's Health Network, girls as young as five and six are taking measures to try and control their weight. In a study conducted by Marika Tiggemann and Levina Clark in 2006 titled "Appearance Culture in Nine-to-12-Year-Old-Girls: Media and Peer Influences on Body Dissatisfaction," It was found that almost half of all preadolescent girls that were surveyed, desired to be thinner and have dieted or entertained the concept of dieting. In 2003, Teen Magazine reported that 50 to 70 percent of normal weight girls are convinced that they are overweight and that in general, over 90 percent of women are dissatisfied with their appearance in some way."Women are sold to the diet industry by the magazines we read and the television programs we watch, almost all of which make us feel anxious about our wight," Media activist Jean Kilbourne said (2.)
According to the Canadian Women's Health Network, girls as young as five and six are taking measures to try and control their weight. In a study conducted by Marika Tiggemann and Levina Clark in 2006 titled "Appearance Culture in Nine-to-12-Year-Old-Girls: Media and Peer Influences on Body Dissatisfaction," It was found that almost half of all preadolescent girls that were surveyed, desired to be thinner and have dieted or entertained the concept of dieting. In 2003, Teen Magazine reported that 50 to 70 percent of normal weight girls are convinced that they are overweight and that in general, over 90 percent of women are dissatisfied with their appearance in some way."Women are sold to the diet industry by the magazines we read and the television programs we watch, almost all of which make us feel anxious about our wight," Media activist Jean Kilbourne said (2.)
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