This picture is the front cover of Shape Magazine in March 2009... seriously?? women do not look like this...
If you watch the ads referring to weight loss it is mainly towards women. If it is a man it is usually Bowflex get buffed but as women we are considered overweight unattractive undesirable IF we do not look like the females in the television ads or the glossy magazines. Alot of the "models" are 18 or early 20's and they have been chosen well. Also airbrush is a big thing makes curves disappear or add pounds to "those unsightly areas".
My aunt is a personal trainer and this is what she said, "I had clients whom I would see twice a week mainly after work they would rush in change and do whatever we planned for that hour and then go home and the usual humdrum. They would not come to the gym or jog or do anything else because they were so tired from working and coming home and shopping and cleaning and cooking (as expected!!!)
The women work not eight hours but sometimes 10hr shifts exhausted BUT the husband still desires dinner on the table at a certain time it is all pressure and then after 6 months my clients husband would say "why don't you look like those girls on the TV ads". "you are wasting your money" and she would be so demoralized and figure whats the point. I would tell her these ads pick the girls also they might have the models workout 2hrs a day if not twice a day! and make sure they eat ONLY what they give them so the Ads can say I got this body in 6wks thanks to this pill this program this diet this food. Or the other alternative women just go hurl after they eat/bulima or go totally anorexic which in the ends destroys their throat and teeth from vomiting or they have kidney and/or liver failure due to lack of nutrition also extremely poor bone health."
Seems like she wrapped up the lives of many women in a couple paragraphs. People are so obsessed with physical appearance because they see the women on magazines or hear criticism from men making them think that they have to look a certain way. What a twisted web..
Many women would do anything to look skinny and "beautiful" but what is beauty? how is it defined? and most importantly, Why are Americans obsessed with women's physical appearance??
Seems like she wrapped up the lives of many women in a couple paragraphs. People are so obsessed with physical appearance because they see the women on magazines or hear criticism from men making them think that they have to look a certain way. What a twisted web..
Many women would do anything to look skinny and "beautiful" but what is beauty? how is it defined? and most importantly, Why are Americans obsessed with women's physical appearance??
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i think this idea for real beauty could be used somehow to address the other side or like a solution type thing, and the way women should be seen.
Also, some peeps believe barbie to be a bad role model for kids because she is too skinny.
" Seriously?? Women do not look like this", Not my girl.
I think that when we hear men criticize women, we accept their criticism. Andrea, I'm doing my junior theme on a similar topic, really close actually. I'm doing the same research and I think it's so sad that our society has become what it has become. This goes along with something we worked on earlier in the year, in the sense that women shouldn't have to feel like they need to look like twigs, however that is what women have been made to feel like. When women get that criticism from men who have forever played a superior role, we take it to the extreme. It's sad but I dont think it will change.
This comment is similar to CPatt's idea of using the topic of real beauty. There was an article from a magazine in the library that went along with how women should see their inner beauty and focus on that. It is on the first bookcase on your left once you pass the silent study room. Check it our or remind me to show it to you!
I think you picked a really cool topic for your Junior theme. Personal image seems like a pretty big issue in the US and at New Trier. Though after reading the quote from your aunt, I think she may be stereotyping husbands. Are these women working hard to please their men? Or to look the way Jamie Presley does on the magazine cover?
What I mean is are they doing it solely for their husbands? Or do they just feel obligated to look like the girl reguardless of what their spouse think?
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