Throughout history, there has always been an ever changing, ever conforming style or shape to our body's that, for the time, is all to necessary to society. Normative influence and Informational influence can both be used when explaining what and why people want to look a certain way. Researchers over the years have uncovered many disturbing facts about our body images and what kind of effects they can do to us. Most* women, ever since I care to remember have been all to much concerned about their weight. This can be explained by Normative influence. In efforts to create what girls themselves decide is the "ideal body", teens and women alike have been known to use dieting to lose weight developing "disturbing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia." So basically just not eating at all, not to healthy. Men also have been given a specific look in witch young men are pressured to live up to. Rather than enduring these eating disorders, since big muscles, six packs, and mature attitudes are the manly image. Men attain their ideal body image through "dieting, steroids, and overworking their bodies." "As early as the 1960’s researchers found that 70% of the high school girls surveyed were unhappy with their bodies and wanted to lose weight (Heunemann, Sharpiro, Hampton, & Mitchel 1966)." That's a huge number! Seven of every ten girls feel uncomfortable with how they look! I hope that's not my fault, being a boy and all. And yes researchers have found that "adolescent and young men report feeling pressure from parents, peers, and media to be more muscular (McCabe & Ricciardelli, 2003a).”And that's just half of it.Informational Social Influence is the physical image of what people are are 'supposed' to look like, its found (for girls) in "articles and advertisements in magazines targeted for teenage girls and adult women as well as female characters on TV shows", and as our world gets more and more technologically advanced, we now get told what to look like on the Internet, by the toys we give to our children, and on the streets were billboards show modules as 'real beauty'. ( Nemeroff, Stein, Diehl & Smilack Stein, Diehl, & Smilack, 1995). Society is worse than ever, treating girls like trash unless they can starve themselves and live up to societies specs. Girls are getting smaller and boys beefy-er, seemingly naturally unless you look close enough. And Even worse, I have herd of many clothing stores that only sell really small outfits expecting costumers to conform to their desired size for girls to be! What the hell?! Can you really tell someone how big or small they need to be? What do you think?
check out my man Bella's blog it covers this issue better than I can.
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5 comments:
i have so much to say about this. i think that this is a subject that we have to fix, and we have to do it not alone, but with help of others! this is crazy more than 70% of hight school girls arnt happy with their body, thats way too much. do you think that some girls are happy with they way they look? but when asked if they are happy they say no, because they see other girls who are thinner saying that they are not happy?
thats an intresting aproch to it but probebly not. If girls were rrreeally happy with the way they look, then why would they feel ashamed and when asked and hide there previos fellings?
they say they are not because they see that girls that are thinner than them are not happy with their body, so how would and could they? you know what i mean?
yea i guess, I'm not a girl so what do I know?
haha yea but its kind of the same as a guy.. wouldnt it be?? i mean do you think guys would fake and tell everyone that they dont like their body cuz their not buff, but really they like the way they look?
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