Week # 8 - Media Image of Women

The main idea of the article is how the media is reflecting women to change their bodies and how the media is a major influence in the decisions that women make within their lives about themselves.

The author uses many types of information such as facts to back up their main idea. The author states how one out of every four college women have attempted to have a unhealthy diet method to lose weight and keep it off. The author also states how the majority of the media magazines and shows use only skinny models instead of overweight models. This is a reflection on many women. The author also states how the media makes a image on women that if they have a ideal skinny body, they will have a great life by having a happy family, and a rewarding career.

Researchers generated a computer model of a barbie doll to prove to women that there is no such thing of a ideal body. It is unrealistic to have a barbie - like body. The author stated how the researchers proved that if women were to have a body like a barbie doll, they would not survive because there back would be too weak to support the weight of the upper body and the body would be too narrow to contain even more than half the liver. In reality, you can not be that skinny, no matter how much the media encourages women to town down.

In my opinion, no one is perfect. Nothing can make any woman perfect, no matter how beautiful they are or how slim one can be. I think that the media should let women look the way they choose to look. Women should be the way they feel happy with. If they are happy looking skinny, then they should be skinny. If a woman feels happy being overweight, then that is their decision. In the end, the only thing that matters is the woman's objective. People should not care what others think about them. The media is doing a bad job by encouraging women to try to become someone they are not wanting to be. You can be as skinny as you want, pretty as you want, but you will never be happy unless YOU want to be that way. Its the same thing as money - money can not buy you happiness, neither can the "perfect" beauty.