L'image du corps parfait - courte étude en anglais

Perfection

Is real beauty skin deep?

Looking at your reflection, what do you see?

Do you think you’re beautiful? There is no greater challenge to a woman than to feel good about herself. Atypically, there are more things to help us in the struggle-technologically raped, plagued with images of flawless, stick-thin size zero women who appear to defuse perfection from the very pores of their untarnished skin. Drastic medical procedures such as elective cosmetic surgery. But still, many people in our society feel unattractive and unworthy. Attractiveness is one thing that everyone craves for but can the definition of perfect be argued? The mind of today’s society conforms painstakingly to the idealist doctrine of the perfect body image; portrayed extensively by the media the media should not have this control over what beauty is. How can one say what beauty is? Aesthetic appreciation differs from an individual’s opinion to cultural preferences. One may be fascinated by a certain eye color or skin color, beauty doesn’t depreciate if one is skinny or tall or in contrast, short and fat.

The media’s influence on women talking among themselves is like listening to a bombardment of groans, whines and complaints about their appearance. Observing a women eat is to watch them pick perspicaciously through food, confronting a mental battle against calorie and fat inhibitions. women have crumpled into the furthest corners of their minds during their perpetual fantasies of looking like a model. Why aren’t there enough voluptuous models on the ramp? Why does a television advertisement for some toothpaste commercial have to be a size zero models? With constant images of stick-thin, size-zero models, tiny-waisted pop princesses and actresses is putting young girls' health at risk and fuelling the rise in eating disorders. Unrelenting exposure to pictures of thin women reduced self-esteem, especially among teenage girls.

Media’s influence has resulted in creation of ideal body images, which are almost impossible to achieve for each and everyone, who knows why ordinary people feel the need to jump on the bandwagon? For many years fat has equalled unattractive and unhealthy, but no more so than being vastly underweight. The size zero culture perhaps appeals to those who have a low self-image and equate being ultra-thin with being happy. Those most at risk are likely to be weight conscious already and perhaps borderline anorexic or bulimic.

Watch television, visit a movie theater, or pick up a magazine and you will surely notice that most of the women are very thin. Rarely is a plus-sized actress cast in a lead roll, a model hired who is above a size zero, or a full figured singer featured on a magazine cover. The Medias influence is inescapable. Girls and young women are bombarded with pressure to be thin, however the encouragement of all models that violate their bodies by their consistent appeals to having to be stick thin, is just repulsing. All runways, catwalks, and top fashion editorial companies influence all this horrifying images, leaving teenagers with emotional and physical disfigurements when they try to accomplish the “ideal” size of a size ZERO.

People give bigger women, like Queen Latifah, a really hard time for their size, but women should be allowed to be whatever size they feel

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