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The Female Figure in Media:
How the Female Body Has
Always Helped to Fuel Economic Trends
Look, there's a woman! Whoa, there's another one. They're everywhere! On
billboards, television commercials, magazine ads, in the movies and just
about everywhere else, women - specifically certain parts of their bodies -
are used to fuel various economic trends. As unfair as that may seem, that
is the way that it has been, is and will be. The female figure is used to
sell everything. Clothing, cosmetics, diet
supplements, food, cars and more
are all marketed largely through the use of the female body.
However, not just any female figure will do. Oh no. It needs to be young,
tall, thin - in essence, completely beautiful in every way imaginable. And
many times, these female figures are presented as being beautiful beyond the
capacity for a "normal" woman to realistically match. The vast majority of
real women do not have makeup artists, wardrobe specialists, lighting
technicians and graphic air-brush artists available to make them glamorous
to the degree that seems to be so common in the
media. Still, it's
everywhere. Men are gawking and women are growing more insecure by the day.
They want that perfect life that is promised to them if only they were to
lose that weight, have that perfect skin and have a perfectly
toned
hourglass figure.
Setting Impossible Standards:
The industries for cosmetics, clothing and diet products in particular
capitalize heavily by making women feel substandard. The female figures that
appear in ads are not real. In many cases, they are merely computerized
images of famous models that have been completely manipulated in a graphic
sense. Advertisers fully understand that by setting their standards too high
to reach, they will maximize their profit margins for the long run. And when
the diet supplement industry fails, the industries for cosmetics, exercise
plans, cosmetic surgeries, designer
clothing and more takeover. After all,
just because a woman doesn't need to lose any more weight doesn't mean that
she isn't still aging.
The results can be devastating for millions of women across the planet.
Insecurity sparks sales. Products they cannot deliver the levels of beauty
and glamour that these women desire lead to a sense of failure and
unattractiveness. This further breeds insecurity - and more sales - and in
many cases, serious depression. Further, this loss of
self-esteem and the
desire to defeat it breeds very unhealthy eating and other
lifestyle habits.
Millions of women who are affected by the unrealistic and unattainable
glamour presented by mass media sources develop the following detrimental
habits for attempted weight loss and beauty enhancement:
Recent research concerning the effects of the representation of the female
figure in mass media outlets discovered the following facts:
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More than 45% of preadolescent females claim that they wish to be thinner.
As a result they have engaged in improper dieting habits;
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35% of females between the ages of six and 12 years old report having been
on at least one diet already;
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Approximately 60% of all girls within their normal
weight range seriously
believe that they are too heavy;
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90% of all adult women report being dissatisfied with their
bodies in one
way or another.
Magazines, television shows and motion pictures all act in conjunction to
affect the mentalities of a staggering percentage of all women. These media
sources cause women by the hundreds of millions to feel chronically anxious
about their weight levels and appearances.
The Cold, Hard Truth:
Not everybody is meant to be physically beautiful. Not everybody is meant to
be a model. Every individual human on the planet,
female or male, has a
completely unique "recipe" for what
makes them who they are. The way they
look, the way they talk, the way they think and the way they act are all
totally independent of any other human being. The truth is that the
representations of female beauty in most mass media outlets are not
obtainable for the majority of women (or men). It is very necessary to
recognize the profound importance of this fact.
Media images that are meant to represent female beauty will never be
realistically able to be matched by the majority of the earth's population.
Each individual needs to diligently endeavor to recognize their own internal
beauties, develop their personality characteristics as they would choose -
and most importantly, strive to live a holistically
healthy lifestyle in
general. In these ways only, the natural beauty inherent in any individual
will emerge in shining fashion. True beauty - real life beauty - stems from
the inside, and nowhere else.
Media Influences on Women's Body Shapes
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