Girls are taught this skewed take on reality, of being deathly thin, in our society. My little sister is only fourteen years old, and already has issues with her size. She also feels the pressure to dress "sexy" to fit in, or be well liked. In the picture, she's looking into a bent mirror, which gives the illusion of an extreme thinness. When she looks in this bent mirror, she smiles. It's as if the root of happiness is derived from this defined beauty our culture embraces. To think that at only fourteen years old weight loss, and seductive clothing are top priorities, is a little scary. Since she was eleven she's been on extreme diets, and always trying new types of exercise, even using the Weight Watcher's plan to loose weight. Although a naturally thin girl, she's never been happy with her weight, and is always trying to loose more. The other side of this beauty standard our society creates, is glamour. I'm afraid she's bought into that as well. Only designer labels are good enough, and the less clothing the better. Always tanning, and getting her nails done, my sister definitely strives to fit the mold. But I ask, for what? What's wrong with "natural beauty"? Society's harsh demanding can be damaging to girls, and proves to be in this case. Although she's maintained the thin glamorous appearance, she suffers emotionally and sometimes even physically. The process that took my sister to this point was definitely a scary one, and it's sad to think our society promotes this. Gender socialization is definitely something that needs to be closely watched.
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This picture hits on a really big problem in our society. Its so sad to see how girls at younger ages are becoming so concerned with the impossible beauty standards that the media portrays. What they don't do is stop and think about the process that these models go through to look that way, such as the make up, hair extentions, and tons of air brushing. The fact that she is smiling because of how thin she looks in the mirror is a scary thought. The media needs to stop portraying these sexed up skeletons in magazines and ads and start using more natural looking girls before this problem gets even more out of hand.
I once heard that the percentage of women who really are as skinny as the models we see on tv and magazines is almost less then five. If there is such a small precteage of women in the world that are this small then why arent there bigger people shown in the media as beautiful and sexy as well.
I believe today's society has really been a strain on our younger generation due to the fact that looking at this picture just shows how we see her on the outside it doesn't say how she is really feeling on the inside and that is where we run into problems.
This photo shows to me how looks are decieveing. What someone looks like and what they really see are sometimes two different things. It also shows that women want to look skinner than what they really are. It distorts the mind and that is what I think this picture portrays.
Its sad to think that under this beautiful girl she could be suffering from emotional and physical problems. In our society today its the thing to go tanning, buy all the latest fashion, be extremely thin. Why do girls have to look like this? its not fair and shouldn't be this way.
This picture shows a common issue that girls face everyday looking in the mirror. We all have insecurities but the one thing that shows all of our insecurities is the mirror. This photo also makes me think of why someone would make a mirror to distort someone more. Society almost tries to conform women into the ultimate beauty by teaching them how to conform to all mirrors. This can cause some serious issues growing up if you have a very low self-esteem and go by everything you see in the mirror.
The girl in the picture clearly has been influenced by the media. She looks at herself in the mirror and doesn't see the beautiful girl she truely is. She wishes that she was super model skinny. What she doesn't realize is that she needs to be comfortable in her own body. She smiles, but on the inside is sad because she knows she can never achieve the media's view of perfection. This is an epidemic in today's society, and it's hitting more and more girls each day. If only these girls could realize that they are beautiful no matter what anybody says.
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