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The Media and Its Effect on Women and Their Views of Their Bodies The Media and Its Effect on Women and Their Views of Their Bodies Distorted and unattainable sexist mass images are the inevitable consequences of a social system in which those who are thin and big breasted benefit most. We as a society have created an environment so image obsessed that those with power give approval for being thin and disapproval for being fat, creating a generation of women so self conscious about their body image, that it is affecting their health. In this essay I plan to discuss the inexcusable methods in which the mass media encourages young women to disfigure and mutilate their bodies. When an obsessive media targets and forces young women to hate their bodies it makes them more vulnerable to emulating media stereotypes and prone to compulsive dieting. "Perfection looks like magic to those who stand aside and do not know any better. The main problem with perfection in a society so obsessed with perception is that it looks too easy." States Florance Brone a physiologist from Michigan. Media purveyors promote the message that unrealistic thinness equals sexiness and popularity, which equals beauty, success and all the "good" things in life. Yet, recent interviews have revealed that even glamorous women, media, young, society, images, fat, bodies, unattainable, mass, look, believe, being, beauty, yet, thinness, thin, terms, sexist, seem, obsessed, looks, image, glamorous, effect, distorted, constant, appearance, against, young impressionable, wrongfully, women's, women, today, woman, wide, who, stand, which equals, ways, waif, vulnerable, views, value, upon, unschooled, unrealistic, turn, try, today's, today, passively