BEAUTY IN THE MEDIA

The aim of this blog is to focus on aspects of portraying beauty in the media; the negative and positive-if any. This topic is very important because the media actually manipulate us when telling us what is beautiful, how to perceive beauty and by continual portraying only the one type of a perfect woman make us consider it standard. Those women are all young, beautiful and thin. It looks like we are living in a perfect world full of perfect looking people. But how often do we actually meet those people in a real life? How often do we meet them on a street?

In fact, nobody can see what is actually behind it, behind this “media perfection.” Nobody realizes that many of those women may suffer from eating disorders and that the number of women who can really look like that is actually very small. Despite of all this, it does not stop women from trying to look the same and later ending with eating disorders or low self-esteem.

neděle 16. května 2010

How Advertising Affect Body Image

I would like to react on the article How Advertising Affect Body Image that was published in 2008 and that you can find at http://socyberty.com/society/how-advertising-affects-body-image/. It is just another article concerning the negative influence of mass media on people. As it is said in the article: “while we often say that the inside is more important than the outside, far more is invested on average to change our exterior than our interior. Advertising directly influences this behaviour.” How come that even though people realize that the personality is more important than the physical appearance, they still work hard on their looks at the first place? Also, the article says that “very few overweight people are portrayed as smart and capable people. This is not true in the “real” world.” According to me, it is simply the society’s perception that should be changed.
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