Society Kills Us

This blog opens viewers eyes to the harrowing effect of society and the social media's impact on individuals, typically girls and women, around the world. Including the effect of the advertising and modeling agency.

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Flip through any teen fashion magazine, including Vogue, and you will find countless advertisements and articles glorifying the importance of perfecting one’s body to achieve an ideal physical form. The powerful words in magazines are usually accompanied by pictures of thin, beautiful models and celebrities.

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Inquiry Project Topic: What other impacts does social media and the idea of this 'ideal' beauty have on individuals across the world? Are people aware of the impact?

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Images In Advertisements

Images in advertisements, television, and music usually portray the "ideal woman" as tall, white, and thin, with an hour-glass body, and blonde hair.

  Ultra-thin models are so prominent that exposure to them becomes unavoidable and 'chronic', constantly reinforcing a discrepancy for most women and girls between their actual size and the ideal body

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There are so many young girls who look up too models and celebrities and want to be like them. Many young girls have tried to commit suicide because there faces do not match or look like the photo shopped images. I have cousin’s who are 12 and say they are “fat”. This is wrong. This needs to...

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According to the article, "Female Body Image and the Mass Media: Perspectives on How Women Internalize the Ideal Beauty Standard"  by Kasey L. Serdar....

Images in the media today project an unrealistic and even dangerous standard of feminine beauty that can have a powerful influence on the way women view themselves. From the perspective of the mass media, thinness is idealized and expected for women to be considered "attractive."

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"Fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women"

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Why does the advertising agency continue to spend billions each year when that money could be spent on other, more necessary things?

The multi-billion dollar beauty industry depends on a strong emphasis on the value of beauty and appearances for women, because this supports a consumption-based culture in which the answer for any problem can be achieved by purchasing advertised products for improving one’s appearance.

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