Beauty and body Images in the Media

1) The main idea of this article is how women and their beauty are being portrayed by the media ....to become something they are not.

3) What types of information are used to support the main points of the article?
The type of information that are used to support the main points of this article are statistics such as that 35 percent of children from 6-12 have been on atleast one diet. This shows that dieting is very big in the media which is shown also with research groups such as " the American Research Group ... Anorexia Nervosa & related Eating Disorders" They use examples from magazines such as saying how they only use the "skinny" models in women ads and they are promoting weight loss more then men magazines are . The article also states how tv actors are usually skinny because the heavier ones recieve negative messages and comments from other actors.




4)Why did researchers generate a computer model of a woman with Barbie-doll proportions?
The reason why researchers generated a computer model of a women barbie - doll was to show all women that there is no such thing as an "ideal" women.... No women can survive being Ultra skinny because that can cause many disorders to the body along with devastating health conseguences . For example, the article states that " her back would be to weak to support the weight of her upper body and her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver......." (561)


5)Write a paragraph describing the way YOU think women should be portrayed in the media.
Personally, i think that the way women are being portrayed in the media is totally wrong. First off the media shows ads for those dieting pills which are not one the least bit good for you. Second off, showing models that have less than 5 percent body weight is not attractive. Those women have no meat on their bones and they also give men the wrong idea for the "perfect " woman. Not all women are the same, and men usually go for the "skinny " type because that is what the media is showing. ( by the way i'm not saying all men ) I think that there is different ways to dieting, exerising, and losing weight. Eat healthy ( no fast food) and exercise 3 times a week.