The Media's Dangerous Perception of the Ideal Body Image

Tonight, Captain America: The first Avengers is broadcasting on public TV, so I decided to visit this wonderful Marvel Movie. The hero Steve Rogers was a frustrated anemic American and the list of his health problems and lack of physical strength during World War II brought multiple rejections by recruiters. However, due to his kind German doctor, he eventually found himself injected serum.

Since it is usually a comparison of an unrealistic depiction of the human body and an ideal image drawn on the media, the image of the body is usually not an accurate basis for judgment. Body images are almost common problems affecting both men and women. Researchers found that 74.4% of ordinary women are always considering how to reduce their weight and weight. Women are not the only ones that look negative on their bodies. 46% of men have the same emotion (Brown University). Research shows that social media, pressure from fellows, and fashion can have a big impact on how men and women see themselves and their efforts to achieve a perfect body I will.

Literary critique "Ideal female body perception in the media adversely affects the health of young women." Media is a means of television, newspapers, magazines, and movies. The media plays an important role in influencing the recognition of young girls, especially from the perspective of the body image. (Uttara in 2012). The media may influence the physical health impact, especially in the positive or negative way to the perception of the body image of adolescent women.

Over the years, people have always believed that idealized body images displayed in advertisements have a negative impact on women's perception of self-concept and body image. Researchers believe that the idealized image of a woman's body in advertising has a direct or indirect adverse effect on female body image satisfaction, self-concept, and in extreme cases, feeding behavior It is. According to Lucas, Crowson, OaposFallon, and Melton (1999), the thin ideal woman's body depicted on the media is consistent with an increase in eating disorders. "This thinks that women and young girls will apply unnecessary pressure to advertise and portray the most successful image, adapting to a particular body image, rather than their learning or economic independence image"