They include issues with body image, eating dirorders, depression and self esteem and even teen suicide. The facts that 9 our of 10 girls say that the fashion industry and the media places a lot of pressure on teenage girls to be thin and that 1/3 of girls admit to starving themselves as a strategy of weight loss shows the growing impact sexualization in the media can have on young girls’ mental and physical health. What is the large amount of energy girls put into how they look and how they dress for approval saying about our society? Men may love staring at 19-year olf Kiera Knightley’s chest when she runs up and down the soccer field in the movie “Bend it Like Beckham”, but what is this image saying about women. The target audience is not middle aged men, as Roeper would say; it’s the teenage girls themselves who are being brainwashed with false images or what the ideal women has to look and act
They include issues with body image, eating dirorders, depression and self esteem and even teen suicide. The facts that 9 our of 10 girls say that the fashion industry and the media places a lot of pressure on teenage girls to be thin and that 1/3 of girls admit to starving themselves as a strategy of weight loss shows the growing impact sexualization in the media can have on young girls’ mental and physical health. What is the large amount of energy girls put into how they look and how they dress for approval saying about our society? Men may love staring at 19-year olf Kiera Knightley’s chest when she runs up and down the soccer field in the movie “Bend it Like Beckham”, but what is this image saying about women. The target audience is not middle aged men, as Roeper would say; it’s the teenage girls themselves who are being brainwashed with false images or what the ideal women has to look and act