From: Mark
Arguing about body image in America is a fruitless pursuit. Sex appeal has been, and always will be, a chief concern for her citizens and her youth. From Jack LaLanne , to Jane Fonda, to Richard Simmons, to Tony Little, to Billy Blanks, American youth has constantly had “fitness gurus” paraded on to their TV screens imploring them to eat a proper diet and exercise, but not until recently has the youth been exposed to DuPont’s idea of "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry." Whenever a child turns on the TV or reads a magazine they are bombarded with advertisements for countless supplements they NEED to take, promising meteoric gains in muscle mass or drastic waistline reduction (whichever you prefer). These ideas are the fuel for my picture 21st Century Lettuce Wraps. As long as we can see the nutrition facts (like on the granola bar), incorporate some greens (the lettuce), take our supplements (the pills), the scale will tell us what we want AND we can wash it all down with a Coke. The image is slightly blurred because youth have this idea of what they want to look like, but can’t remember exactly what it is. The idea here is that human body is no longer a temple to America’s youth: it’s an organically fueled, chemically enhanced, corporately sponsored wasteland that doesn’t come with a mind of its own.
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This entire picture captures exactly how our culture perceives of what we should do in order to keep up with how our body should be. Instead of taking the healthy route by eating smaller portions and being physically active society wants us to use pills and take the unhealthy route. The models used today in magazines and on billboards aren’t even how they originally look its all Photoshop, which make many women today try and achieve the impossible. Women want the perfect hourglass figure, which is shown on many Disney princesses, and they want to have a thigh gap that shows how skinny they really are. It’s very sad how our culture makes us feel as if it’s a necessity to be this thin there is constant pressure put onto many young adults today and it isn’t getting better. Marilyn Monroe was known for her beautiful curves and her figure was perfect but not because she was stick skinny but because of how she was beautiful she was with the body she had.
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