To Whom It May Concern:
I’ll be honest; I spend a lot of time watching TV. I enjoy it. I know it is a huge waste of time, but I do it anyway. I even watch the dumb teenager shows, which probably makes it even worse. While watching these shows I have realized something. All the girls on these shows weigh maybe weigh a hundred pounds and most of them probably have breast implants. Watching these shows could easily make young girls feel like they need to look a certain way, which is an almost impossible way to look.
I know people always talk about the fashion industry and how they have tiny models and their airbrushed photos, but it’s been exposed so much that we know those models are anorexic and that those photos usually aren’t how the girl really works. On the TV shows it is very different. This is a real life girl, walking around, attracting all of the dreamy guys that these young teenage girls would want to attract.
I say it’s time to leave the fashion industry alone and start attacking the TV shows. Movies also have tiny actresses that could make any girl feel fat or ugly. Something needs to be done about these real-life dangers to young teenage girls. When a teenage girl sees someone like that on TV, it is very easy for her body image to change and for the girl to not feel very good about herself. If she is not attracting tons of boys, she might feel like it is because she does not look like the skinny girls she sees on TV and in movies. That is when girls start excessive dieting, or even anorexia. They feel worse and worse about themselves and sometimes suffer from depression and start to hurt themselves, because they aren’t who these girls on TV that they think they should be.
I think it is disgusting that we are putting teenage girls through this. They need TV shows that build them up and make them feel beautiful, because every girl is a daughter of our Heavenly Father and she deserves to feel that way.
I am so glad that I am a guy and image to me is not up there in my list of things I car deeply about but I am not saying being a girl is the worst. I honestly can see how frustrating that could be to see what the world wants and to feel like you have to conform to that but really I don't need an anorexic girlfriend with platinum blond hair. This will sound cheesy but a girl better be smart and fun to be around if I am to truly like a girl. Too bad the world judges on looks alone.
ReplyDeleteI have seen first hand the effects of anorexia and a poor body image. I knew a girl at school that was kind of pudgy and she started to like a boy and he didn't like her back, so she decided it must have been because she was too fat. She then quit eating and nearly died. She had to leave home and spend several months away, receiving counseling and medical attention. It truly is sad that people feel like they must be thin to be accepted into our society.
ReplyDeleteThe media is so destructive for girls. I know quite a few girls who have had, or have an eating disorder. It is so sad to see what they go through to be the world's kind of beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad to hear how people are affected by the media when it comes with weight. Both genders are affected by the media when it comes to the perfect body. I have heard so many tragic stories dealing with eating disorders, it makes me wish that the media would somehow try to influence people in that you don't need the perfect body to be happy. Great topic!
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