In the United States today, nearly 10 million females and 1 million males suffer from some form of anorexia or bulimia and over 70 million people worldwide struggle with some sort of eating disorder. It’s no secret that most of these people recorded, have been exposed to the media and television, which influenced how they see their body’s and what they want to change about them. Not only does the media influence girls “ideal” body, but studies also show that attractive people have more advantages in our society, also the problem about social media is that when dealing with body image, people don’t have to be directly exposed it also passes through friendships. In 1993 Anne Becker went to Fiji to study girls and their body image. During this
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Today around the world in schools and different jobs, studies have shown that attractive people have more advantages in these fields than normal looking people do. Around the world in different schools, it’s acknowledged that if a person is more attractive they’re more popular with both classmates and teachers. Not only are they more popular among the teachers but teachers also give higher evaluations to the work turned in by the better looking students. This is a big part of society’s impact on body image because when attractive people are given advantages that others aren’t, it becomes unfair. The people who aren’t getting the advantages feel the need to change themselves to be like others, which could not only lead to mental health issues but actually lead to physical health …show more content…
But people don’t have to be directly exposed to these images or these TV shows. If one girl in a group of friends had been exposed to these photos, they can go and share it with all the other girls leaving them affected by the media’s influence also. This is a huge problem because the influence spreads so quickly to so many different girls, and once it’s implanted in their brain, it can’t necessarily be unplanted. Although there’s many facts and evidence that the social media poorly influences body image, people also have shown good reasoning that the media gives off a good affect. They argued that it gets people encouraged to get healthy and fit or change their lifestyle for the better. Which could be true, being exposed to health products and exercise programs from the media could easily get people motivated to get healthy. But when it gets to the point where young girls and boys begin to starve themselves or skip meals while they’re still growing it becomes
Today around the world in schools and different jobs, studies have shown that attractive people have more advantages in these fields than normal looking people do. Around the world in different schools, it’s acknowledged that if a person is more attractive they’re more popular with both classmates and teachers. Not only are they more popular among the teachers but teachers also give higher evaluations to the work turned in by the better looking students. This is a big part of society’s impact on body image because when attractive people are given advantages that others aren’t, it becomes unfair. The people who aren’t getting the advantages feel the need to change themselves to be like others, which could not only lead to mental health issues but actually lead to physical health …show more content…
But people don’t have to be directly exposed to these images or these TV shows. If one girl in a group of friends had been exposed to these photos, they can go and share it with all the other girls leaving them affected by the media’s influence also. This is a huge problem because the influence spreads so quickly to so many different girls, and once it’s implanted in their brain, it can’t necessarily be unplanted. Although there’s many facts and evidence that the social media poorly influences body image, people also have shown good reasoning that the media gives off a good affect. They argued that it gets people encouraged to get healthy and fit or change their lifestyle for the better. Which could be true, being exposed to health products and exercise programs from the media could easily get people motivated to get healthy. But when it gets to the point where young girls and boys begin to starve themselves or skip meals while they’re still growing it becomes