WHY DOES THIN HAVE TO BE IN?
“Why does thin have to be in” is a very powerful article written by Kaylin Taggart. This article outlines and discusses the hardships that women must face and the obstacles they must over come in order to be able to look in the mirror and accept and love what they see, in a society that is constantly bombarding them with images that are telling them otherwise.
Tierney Wallace was a young girl whos story was outlined in this article, and I hope that after many girls read this article, and hear her story become inspired to love their bodies as they are. Tierney attended Broome Community College and was struggling with an eating disorder, and was loosing weight rapidly. She went every day of her life, reading the back of packaged foods, in order to make sure that she stayed within the strict diet she placed upon herself, where she was only allowed to eat 400 calories per day. It made it especially hard for Tierney to stop the disease that was taking control of her life, when people began to compliment her on how much weight she had lost, and how great she looked, it gave her mixed messages, and did not know she should stop. This made it very hard for her to go get the help that she needed because of the positive feedback she was receiving from others.
She even dreaded ever going to the doctors, in fear that he would make her eat, which would cause her to gain weight, and take away all the attention that she was receiving. When Tierney stopped eating her metabolism shut down because there was little to no calories to burn. This is when her body began eating her muscles, and when she finally decided to seek some professional treatment, with the support from the people she loves most; her family and friends.
Media and advertisement is the main reason why women are so insecure about their bodies. “High cheekbones, scarlet-blooded lips and corpse-like figures flood the high fashion runways.” If the average woman really does weigh 140 pounds and is a size 14, you could only imagine that the reoccurring images of thin unattainable images that women are seeing every single day must affect a woman greatly, if she ever tries to fit into this mold. I believe that the opinions of youth do not differ from those of adults, because, the media does not only target a specific group of women, but all of them, which always has the same effect of both teenage, and adult women. I also believe that this affects a male teenagers and a male adults' point of view of what a woman should look like; so either way, both males and females, young and old, are being fed with the same toxic information by the media.
Tierney Wallace was a young girl whos story was outlined in this article, and I hope that after many girls read this article, and hear her story become inspired to love their bodies as they are. Tierney attended Broome Community College and was struggling with an eating disorder, and was loosing weight rapidly. She went every day of her life, reading the back of packaged foods, in order to make sure that she stayed within the strict diet she placed upon herself, where she was only allowed to eat 400 calories per day. It made it especially hard for Tierney to stop the disease that was taking control of her life, when people began to compliment her on how much weight she had lost, and how great she looked, it gave her mixed messages, and did not know she should stop. This made it very hard for her to go get the help that she needed because of the positive feedback she was receiving from others.
She even dreaded ever going to the doctors, in fear that he would make her eat, which would cause her to gain weight, and take away all the attention that she was receiving. When Tierney stopped eating her metabolism shut down because there was little to no calories to burn. This is when her body began eating her muscles, and when she finally decided to seek some professional treatment, with the support from the people she loves most; her family and friends.
Media and advertisement is the main reason why women are so insecure about their bodies. “High cheekbones, scarlet-blooded lips and corpse-like figures flood the high fashion runways.” If the average woman really does weigh 140 pounds and is a size 14, you could only imagine that the reoccurring images of thin unattainable images that women are seeing every single day must affect a woman greatly, if she ever tries to fit into this mold. I believe that the opinions of youth do not differ from those of adults, because, the media does not only target a specific group of women, but all of them, which always has the same effect of both teenage, and adult women. I also believe that this affects a male teenagers and a male adults' point of view of what a woman should look like; so either way, both males and females, young and old, are being fed with the same toxic information by the media.
posted by layals at 7:23 PM
3 Comments:
Love the post layal! So true, why does thin have to be in? It's hard not to feel the need esp. with the summer coming up =/
It's the media's fault!! Everyone has this idea that you have to be pin-thin in order to be accepted in society. I agree it's insanity! I really like what Dove is doing, the campaign for beauty, it's giving us a new perspective on what 'beauty' is, and beauty comes in all shapes and sizes!
Layal, its funny how we write this stuff but the truth of the matter is that like it or not it affects each and everyone one of us. People worry and analyse what they consider their "flaws" so much and to such an extent that it begins to affect their everyday life. People do not see that their so-called "flaws" are only seen as flaws to them. No one else but them notices it and they become obsessed with their imperfections. I think though that the truth of the matter is even if some of us can get lipo-suction or plastice surgery it would not matter because we will jsut find something else that we will deem a "flaw"... where does it end?
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