Thin_Equals_Beautiful

Thin Equals Beautiful In American Society today, thin equals beautiful. American women are judged by the way they look. It can define who they are as people. {Who they are or how they see themselves'] To get ahead in this world you have to look the “right” way. [Why' Too cliché.] The standard of what women should look like is very clearly put to them. It is posted on billboards, in the magazines they read, where they shop, and especially on television. The media plays the most significant role in projecting these unhealthy ideals about weight. [We switched dramatically from general notions of women to weight] Image standards affect women of all ages, races, and statures; their presence is inescapable. From the first lady to your own mother, women are judged and judge themselves by these standards. [The question then becomes why do it' How have we been encouraged to follow these standards.] These images presented to us by the media define what the ideal woman looks like. Naomi Wolf writes, in her book The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women; “advertising is a 130 billion dollar a year industry. The average American watches 30 hours of TV women, weight, standards, thin, look, ideal, society, better, body, being, upon, own, media, know, been, average, american, always, woman, types, today, times, television, should, self-control, point, person, people, parents, one, models, magazines, losing, lose