the media often serves as a child's reference for the way the world works. a study focused on adolescents and the influence of media to put pressure on them to be skinnier or fatter or more muscular.
It was not surprising that the girls
studied here agreed to a greater extent that the media was influencing them
to be slimmer than either of the other media influences and an age relationship
was also found whereby agreement with this statement increased with
increasing age.
in not scientific jargon: girls found that the media was influencing them to be slimmer over gaining weight and becoming more muscular. Also, older teens found that the media influenced them more. This comes with puberty and increasing body awareness, report the study's authors.
the media has created an ideal body which has changed over time. nowadays, women and men both are being shown slimmer models, which pushes them to lose weight themselves. they see the models on tv or in magazines, and take these to be ideal. the media in this way is the ultimate informer on how society is, so teens and children learn gender roles and how to look from mimicking the peope they see on tv.
the skinny stereotype has been linked to eating disorders, especially in females. when they don't look like the women they see on the cover of magazines, they become disappointed in themselves and work harder--by dieting, exercizing, and otherwise--to become like the ideal woman (as reported in the study). they are constantly chasing an ideal that is difficult to reach, and every day they don't become "the perfect woman" is another day they fail. all this failure leads adolescents to be unhappy with themselves. this is a way that global media makes people unhappy.
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