Media has severely distorted the image of women by the pictures posted in magazines, in advertisements and on television. You see the ultra-thin models who are usually around 5' 10" and 110 lbs opposed to the average woman who is 5'4" and 145 lbs according toWalden Behavioral Care. With the images floating in society, it is no wonder that eating disorders seem to have become more common.
YouTube actually provides a video by Dove called Dove Evolution that shows how companies manipulate pictures to portray perfection. They have also started a campaign called the Campaign for Real Beauty that provides discussion forums, interactive self-esteem builders, a facebook group, video's on girls stories of their self-esteem issues, videos of pressures girls feel from society and other such links that are used to tackle the issue of self-esteem and body image.
I feel that this is a great start on getting girls to realize that they are not alone in the struggles they face on body image pressures and self-esteem issues. It is an dilemma that many girls face at sometime in their lives and often times they do not have the tools available or confidence to talk about it. This campaign will hopefully change that.
Girls have to remember that beauty varies and it not this thin figure that we are used to seeing. Everyone is beautiful in their unique ways and it's about time we all realized it and started to believe it.
2 comments:
This is a great blog topic. It's so relevant, especially for us girls. I'll have to check out that Dove Evolution link. I love their campaign and I think its message really hits home. I actually send a youtube link of Dove's campaign to a foreign student for my ADPR 4600 class to get his opinion on things. I'm interested to see another country's perspective. You're right, the media has done a lot to mess up our idea of beauty, but I definitely think Dove is taking a step in the right direction to correct this.
I totally agree that the image of women has been distorted because of the media. The pictures that are taken and distributed through magazines are pretty much limited to those women who are stick thin and look as if they have not eaten in days... even weeks. I recently read in a magazine that a popular female model had gained a few pounds making her weigh 115 pounds at a height of 5'10. This lead the magazine she was posing for to distort the images they took of her to make her appear thinner. This seriously is disgusting. First of all, at a height of 5'10, weighing 115 pounds can not be remotely healthy, but to make her thinner than she already was is just sick. Thank goodness Dove is taking a step to stop the insanity that has become the standard of beauty.
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