Does Media Cause individuals to develop negative body images?
While reading this particular issue, I found aspects of it be rather subjective within their concept of "being-as-object". I thought that the author was trying to convey that women are being looked at as objects. Instead the author might have been misunderstood to have an opinion of the being of the woman to be subject, when I strongly believe that this is not the case. The media does have some influence in how girls view their own body image, but a lot of it does in fact come from external sources, such as men. Whether it be due to men feeling imasculine in front of wholesome and curvy women, or men's body sizes shrinking because modern day jobs consisting of non-manual labor, their is definitely a dilemna with lots of men believing that women are "fat", when in fact in most cases, they are in reality, not fat at all. There is a modern problem and theme in our society of the fear of fact. It is a contemporary problem of the modern world . The question I have to both of these authors is this: is the ad driving the image? Or is the image driving the ad? I think that both questions are valid, and both have factors and an impact in how women develop negative body images. In addition, there are also problems in defining what it means to be healthy. There are people in society who are overweight, and do have a reason to be concerned, while there are others who are way too skinny and have lost touch with reality in what it means to be healthy. There is also a convergence of roles in this problem, it is now affecting both women and men. Even athletes are subject and not objects to the issue. It is an issue that is indeed fueled by the media, but by no means is the media the only outlet to blame this problem of people in modern day society, facing problems with negative body images.
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