What Are We Teaching Young Girls About Life?
What Are We Teaching Young Girls About Life?
As a woman in society I have always had a hard time dealing with my body image and the pressures to fit in. There are so many burdens within society for women to fit a certain criteria to be accepted. The media has a lot to do with the way women perceive the way they "should" look and act. Friends and family are another source from which this perfect image stems from. It's not healthy for young girls and women to be stick thin and starving themselves just to go along with societal norms and look like everyone else. Women need to learn that it's okay to have they're own look and not be "perfect" because it's impossible and they'll die trying. Instead of worrying about what we look like in the mirror, we need to take a look inside and try to make ourselves better there first.
The Media
All over magazines, television, and movies there are these beautiful and glamorous women with perfect bodies that women all over the world look up to. Since society looks up to all of these celebrities and makes it like they're the ultimate human being, it's natural for woman to strive to be just like them. When I was a young girl growing up it was all about Britney Spears and I wanted to be just like her. No matter what she wore, I wanted it and everything she endorsed, I bought it. I had to work out so that I could wear those tiny little belly shirts she wore, occasionally forget my lunch at home so I wouldn't have to eat anything. Because we all know, pretty means skinny in our society. Now, I know I'm not the only girl that looked up to someone famous. Every woman knows there was that one person they wanted to be just like when they grew up and they would've done anything to achieve that look. As women, when we see someone that's beautiful and everyone else thinks is attractive, we're naturally going to try and duplicate it. But, realistically, are we reaching too far?
The women we look up to all over the magazines are so thin
As a woman in society I have always had a hard time dealing with my body image and the pressures to fit in. There are so many burdens within society for women to fit a certain criteria to be accepted. The media has a lot to do with the way women perceive the way they "should" look and act. Friends and family are another source from which this perfect image stems from. It's not healthy for young girls and women to be stick thin and starving themselves just to go along with societal norms and look like everyone else. Women need to learn that it's okay to have they're own look and not be "perfect" because it's impossible and they'll die trying. Instead of worrying about what we look like in the mirror, we need to take a look inside and try to make ourselves better there first.
The Media
All over magazines, television, and movies there are these beautiful and glamorous women with perfect bodies that women all over the world look up to. Since society looks up to all of these celebrities and makes it like they're the ultimate human being, it's natural for woman to strive to be just like them. When I was a young girl growing up it was all about Britney Spears and I wanted to be just like her. No matter what she wore, I wanted it and everything she endorsed, I bought it. I had to work out so that I could wear those tiny little belly shirts she wore, occasionally forget my lunch at home so I wouldn't have to eat anything. Because we all know, pretty means skinny in our society. Now, I know I'm not the only girl that looked up to someone famous. Every woman knows there was that one person they wanted to be just like when they grew up and they would've done anything to achieve that look. As women, when we see someone that's beautiful and everyone else thinks is attractive, we're naturally going to try and duplicate it. But, realistically, are we reaching too far?
The women we look up to all over the magazines are so thin