Women_In_The_Media

Women In The Media Girls and women of all ages have struggled at some points in their lives with their appearance. Whether they’ve wanted to be taller or thinner, most women have thought at some time or another, how they could improve their looks. For the most part these thoughts of trying to achieve perfection have come from the influences from the media. The media has portrayed images of beauty that most women do not and cannot look like. The force of the media is so powerful that it has put an impact on how women should look and act in order to obtain happiness. How often in movies, television or even magazines have you seen an oversized woman who was exuberant and cheerful' In the American Heritage Dictionary beauty is defined as a pleasing quality associated with harmony of form or color, excellence of craftsmanship, truthfulness, originality, or another, often unspecifiable property. It is thought that everyone has there own interpretation of what beauty is and what it is not. However, in today’s society the media has shown and defined beauty in more of a physical appearance. In the book Our Bodies Ourselves For the New Century the authors described the women, media, society, look, thin, beauty, woman, ideal, average, today’s, television, models, images, image, girls, appearance, young, time, self-image, physical, online, magazine, feel, become, beautiful, wanted, thought, thinner, shown, should, seen, role, real, person, perfection