week 6

Megan La Bianca

1. I expect this article to portray how the media is affecting what we see as beautiful.
2. I read women’s health a lot and they always have a very tone women on the front cover but she’s not skin and bone. I feel there portraying women to lose weight but be tone and built so it can be misleading, as it could show women to be skinny and women will feel pressure to lose weight but also build muscle so they don’t look like walking skeletons.

What is the main idea of the article

The main idea of the article is the media is painting a picture of what we should see as normal, skinny, lots of make up, expensive jewelry. Its telling women that there not good enough as they are so by buying these diet, and make up products they will be more suitable in are society. Sexy sells today every beer commercial has the beautiful, skinny girl advertising there drink, because most men drink beer so you put women and beer together men will sure buy the beer. Today losing weight is a epidemic there’s over a million diet and fitness commercials a year and women are being mislead because they feel that if they lose this weight everything will be better they’ll get the guys, the money, the better life, but really there just making the diet industry richer and richer. Today being skinny is a fashion statement and if your not skinny your not “in”.

What reason is given in the reading to explain the images of women in the media?

The reasons that women are all over the media, is sexy sells. Products are pushing sex and sexy in all there products. Advertisers are pushing how we feel every day we want to feel loved and beautiful so by drinking this drink, by wearing these clothes we will fulfill are need to satisfy are curiosity and are need to fit in. Magazines are telling us what we want to know, they make money one are weakness, everyone struggles with there weight so we want to fix it and the magazines and advertisers know how to sell there products by showing us what we will gain from buying there products. Today “advertising rules the marketplace” and thin is in! Today women are going to higher and higher lengths to fit in and if that means changing who they are they’ll do it, because like the article says being thin means having it all, the perfect marriage, loving children and great sex with a rewarding career. The media is showing us what we want and that’s why we buy it, we fall for there tricks.

Why did the researchers generate a computer model of Barbie-doll proportions?

Researchers generated a computer model of Barbie doll proportions to show the disturbing fact that media images of a female beauty are unattainable. They showed how her proportions showed her back was too weak to support the weight of her upper body, and that her body would be too narrow to contain more than half of her liver and a few centimeters of bowel. They showed this to explain that so many women want this body, but is it worth it? Because with a body like that women can suffer from devastating health consequences.

women should be portrayed in the media, as all different shapes and sizes, in the article it states that, an Australian magazine recently included a picture of a heavy –set model on its cover, it latter received a truckload of letters stating it should be taking off. But why? Shouldn’t we portray all shapes sizes and colors? Because in real life that what we are. To me I feel people don’t want to see what’s true, the want to live in there own little world that everything can change over night by buying diet pills and expensive make up. But really in the end are they happy? We have been so heavily influenced that skinny is the only way to be happy that we go through higher lengths to have it. We should portray all women because there all different kinds of women out there.