From Nora
I choose women’s body issues because it concerns every woman, even at young age. Most young women and teens buy magazines to learn how to look better. I choose white background for this photo because it represents women’s purity and how easily women get influenced by anything (as a white page gets stained quickly), especially when it comes to their body image. When I looked at the picture, I could see that the model is not paying attention to the baby while feeding, because she is more focused on how her body looks. The remote control in her hand represents that she is taking control of how her body should look, thin, makeup, high heels, and the attractive lingerie. As a result, the baby is crying from being hungry, but it also could be a backlash from the baby, because he/she doesn’t feel loved from the mother.
In addition, the picture in the left upper corner is a major women issue in today’s society, which is being “thin” and attractive. A lot of teens suffer from anorexia because they are trying to look like the models in the magazines. The media make it sounds like a woman is not perfect without being thin, havening makeup on, wearing high heels, and sexy lingerie.
In my opinion, the picture in the left lower corner says the most. The young woman is so obsessed with her look, “thin and pretty” than anything else. She is letting her body to represent who she is. Most today’s women magazines (Cosmopolitan and Glamour) view women as a sex object and suppose to have a perfect “thin body”, in order to attract men. According to The Social Psychology of Gender, “women all over the world are pushed to high standards of beauty”, page 240. The sad part is that some teens and women do harm their body and health in order to meet those high standards.
Citations:
Cosmopolitan, February, 2011
Glamour, August, 2013
Rudman, Laurie, A and Glick, Peter. The Social Psychology of Gender. New York, 2010. Print
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