Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Is the media pressuring the idea "Thin is Beauty and eating disorders are okay"?

Society has this unwritten law that in order for you to be beautiful you have to be thin, we came up with this by looking at models and actresses. Everywhere we look pictures are being posted of thin girls and everyone talks about how beautiful they are, but have you ever stopped and thought about what it has taken them to get so incredibly thin? The answer is probably not. Everyday millions of adolescent teens wake up look in the mirror and hate what they see looking back at them. The world is cold and cruel to those that they see as misfits. In high school girls are even more worried about their body size because all of a sudden some of your friends are getting more compliments and being called beautiful while you are just awkwardly standing there trying not to let it get to you that they said nothing to you. In todays society media promotes "pro-ana" there are even websites that give girls step by step instructions on how to starve themselves and become that thin that everyone thinks is so beautiful, they are not even concerned about the fact that they are slowly killing themselves just to please people that will one day forget about them and they will be stuck fighting to get over something they thought was the answer. you do not have to turn on the TV any more to see thin women any more when you go to the store and look at magazine covers you always see articles about how to lose weight and then you look at the picture and there is this thin beautiful woman and all you want is to look like her because everyone thinks shes so pretty. There has been research proving that when teens see pictures promoting this is beautiful, and they do match up to the picture, they feel unhappy with their bodies. These pictures are all over Facebook, tumblr, instagram,and pintrest.When you see these images and you feel like you want to be that thin think to yourself is it really worth doing something that is going to eventually kill you.

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