how do you think Media affects girls self steam???

Question

i'm doind a essay about how looking at a maggazin or watchin tv affects girls self steam...i really need your held this project is due next monday march12..HELP!!!

Answer 1

I think the media is responsible for everything a young girl feels. I believe the media is responsible for a lot of eating disorders. You only have to go back in time to see that this is true. Remember Leonardo d'Vincy....he painted pictures of voluptous women...big breasts, rounded belly's, big fleshy bottoms. In those times there wasnt magazines...there wasnt the fashion industry as it is today. Women then, if they were skinny were thought of as being poor....the big fleshier women were thought of as coming from well to do families. The bigger woman in those days were considered attractive. I think that tells you that something is only considered attractive or unattractive, based on the common views of a particular time...or a particular society we live in. We are all affected by the media....or common opinion. The Greeks, hundreds of years OK, thought it was OK for a man to have several young boys to use for their sexual needs....it wasnt considered odd because it was the done thing.....How come things change?......because a group of people got together and decided what is good and what is bad. This really opens up a huge debate on what is really morality....what is really attractive. Morality, as well as beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder. It is only opinions of a group of people who decide and who market what they think is acceptable whether it be looks or how we behave....it is people and society who dicate how we should behave and how we should look.....but are they right? I wonder if there were no magazines, no media, only influences from your family and friends would we view ouselves differently....I guess that would totally depend on the values and ideas your family and friend hold. If you were raised in a family who were all fat and all the community was fat, and the men who were raised in that environment were fat, then they certainly would consider a skinny woman unattractive and different. You walk down the streets of some foreing cities and if you are blonde, you are considered a celebrity.....Everything, and I mean everything is based on opinions, and I guess the opinion that wins out in the end is the one who has the money and the power to market a particular concept. Leonardo D'Vincy, I guess had the power at that particular time and he painted large women....so large women were considered beautiful....painting were the media at that time....so you work it out for yourself......is there a universal belief of what is attractive and what is not....what is moral behaviour and what is not? Look at all our different cultures....all our different beliefs and I think the answer is very clear. There is no universal belief of what determines how a woman should look or behave, it totally depends on the current concept a group of people have depending on the country, the society and the set of beliefs they hold.

Have you ever thought that maybe the people who market the "skinny" look are people who are out to corner the expensive get skinny quicky concept....Look at all the gyms around...look at all the money being skinny creates for these people. How much money would there be in companies promoting being large...many diet companies would go out of business. If the natural look was promoted...how many cosmetic companies would go bankrupt....Its a dog eat dog world and many things you see in magazines and on television are all money spinners...they dont care that they are destroying young girls/boys lives...all they care about is making money. How many beauty magazines would go out of business if being natural and yourself was promoted....think about it.....everything is based on money. There are so many ways to look at this thing, and everything I have suggested makes more sense than what these magazines are trying to tell young girls. Media is a money making exercise...nothing more. Why do you think the news is filled with "bad" things? Who wants to buy a newspaper where everything is fine and rosy....who wants to read an article that doesnt contain any kind of shock value? Good doesnt sell....being skinny creates all kinds of businesses.....I can name quite a few....there is Jenny Craig....Gloria Marshal....Curves, and more and more are cropping up every day.....all because the media is telling people how they are supposed to look. Its absolutely dreadful and young girls are losing their lives every day because of money making, greedy people.

Answer 2

Definitely! Girls see images of half starved, anorexic models being put up on a pedestal as images of beauty. The normal, healthy female body in no way resembles this. Many girls them see themselves as fat or overweight when they are not. They starve themselves or otherwise endanger themselves to keep up with a false and unhealthy image. Top this off with guys who see these images and tell them they are fat and their self esteem drops and in some cases depression sets in.

If you recall in Spain last year, some models were banned from a fashion show because their body mass index was too low and the promoters felt that it set a bad example for young women. Finally someone has begun to show some common sense.

Answer 3

As a mother of 3, and my oldest being a girl, the media really freaks me out. It is always in the news and on magazine covers. Wear this, eat less, look hot, be 'sexy', this is 'in'. It's terrible. When I was 7 I was climbing trees, not worrying about what to wear because I have to look good. Now moms are taking their daughters to get manicures. MANICURES! I am 28, and have never had a manicure. My daughter comes home from 2nd grade telling me about her friends who get them weekly. Birthday parties are no longer at the park. Moms are spending hundreds of dollars to take a group of girls to a salon to get their hair and nails done.
I refuse to teach my child that being superficial is important. I truly worry about what kind of message is being thrown at young girls. There are no real role models anymore. Even Disney Channel aires shows that show girls being rude, unruly, and throwing snide comments around to everyone. It really worries me.

Answer 4

What girls see in magazines and on tv, they can just assume is what people "should" look like.

Media needs to show normal people, people who have imperfections, because everyone has them!

Its unfair to put so much pressure on young girls to be beautiful (well to be what the media calls beautiful), they're still growing and finding themselves as people and its hard enough when you are young to try and accept yourself for who you are. Without the worry of "why do i not look like these girls?"

Normal girls need to be shown in magazines, not these air brushed models.

Answer 5

i think that girls who arent very secure about themselves and their looks in the first place look to the media and compare themselves to the role models the media puts out there. in some cases, these 'role models' are great influences such as in the cases of reese witherspoon or tyra banks. but often girls see women like nicole richie or lindsay lohan or britany spears and think that they should look at act like that to be cool and accepted in society. young girls are very in tune to what goes on around them and very impressionalbe. they are just trying to fit in, and think that these stars are being mature and cool and that they should act like this too. this causes so many problems including eating disorders, drinking and sex at young ages, and disrespect to parents and other adults. most stars could really work on their images and try to be better role models and examples to today's youth.

Answer 6

Because they think that by looking like a bony stick you look hot while you look disgusting. That's why girls become anorexic/bulemic so they can look just like those girls when a woman looks more beautiful with her natural curves.

Answer 7

i don'T Think ThaT girl's
have "self steam"
They have self-esTeem...
if ThaT's whaT you mean