I felt a number of different things come out of the Bordo article.
Firstly, I think her views on what "the perfect body" should look like,
are very profound. Our society is collapsing because a picture is
painted for women that if you aren't 5'9", 125 lbs., you're fat. That's
not the way it should be. People are developing eating disorders and
anxiety issues trying to fit the mold that's, if anything, completely
ridiculous. The same thing for men. I personally think that big, huge
muscle men are an absolute turn off, but there are ads and constant
commercials about how boys need to be fit and look a certain way so that
girls will like them. Eventually, I hope that this mold will break. It's
stopping people from being happy because they constantly feel inferior
to the "Barbie and Ken" dolls that are walking around us today. It's an
epidemic and if it doesn't stop, people are going to keep developing
major problems. |
10 comments:
To me, everything in the Bordo article was exactly right.Society is putting this image in everyones head, especially young women, that you should be beautiful and thin in order to be happy. People need to start feeling comfortable in their own skin and stop damaging their body just because this is what our society "thinks" young women should look like. Men are going too far with the steriods and body building also.They have this image that they should be fit and soon become addicted to this image.Being fit is good, but not that fit. I do not think huge muscles are attractive either.Most men are using steroids to help them get there faster.Not knowing how dangerous and addicting they can become.Sooner or later that addiction turns into suicide.Society needs to start letting people know it is alright to accept and be happy with who they are.Maybe then people will stop damaging their perceptions of themself and their bodies.
--Gilmore--
The Bordo article is true in all aspects, from how women are supposed to look to how men are supposed to look. I agree with Sizemore in that it is absolutely ridiculous. Women should not have to constantly worrying about being so skinny to not be considered fat. I think it looks nasty if girls are really skinny. I also think that men should yeah be in shape, but so should women. But not the grossly muscular look. It looks gross and then close even fit funny. Same with girls that are really skinny, their clothes don't fit right, and they don't look sexy or even pretty. Hopefully one day soon these expectations will go away and people will be able to stop having to worry about their image so much.
-Stephanie Learn
In the Bordo essay, she basically talked about how ads influence our daily lives on how we act and interact with others and society as a whole. Bordo also said that specific ads like losing weight has many people in our world as they would look at a picture, ad or commercial and they feel that they could look like that and attempt to buy into the ad and go through a lot of work to lose weight.
I've always been facinated by our culture and society's views on beauty. I am an avid Cosmo reader like many other young women. It is hard not to get sucked into a world that surrounds you. Images of girls that are unhealthy and anorexic, but considered the 'ideal beauty' surround the media. I realize that young men feel these same pressures from the really buff and tone men that are in adds for any and everything. Advertisements swarming your commercial breaks on how to lose weight with every pill form and exercise equipment possible. It isn't just the images that are put out there, but the suggestive ads that make it seem like that is how someone 'should' want to be. I'm not sure that we'll ever see a change in our life time over these unrealistic body image goals.
-Kave
The Bordo essay made some excellent points. Our society is falling apart because we care too much about what is not important. I have had many friends battle eating disorders because they feel that they need to look like the people on the magazine covers. It makes me very sad that we do not see the imperfections that these people, on the magazine covers, have. They look very happy but is their life really as great as it seems? I agree that it is hard to ignore these images because the media is constantly bombarding us with them. I hope that one day this "mold" will break and people will ralize what is truly important.
I think that society does place too much on how you look. Ads make
us feel like we have to look a certain way or where a certain brand to
be cool. Ads also play a huge role in decision making. The more ads
we see for a product, the more we think that product is great. If we
see a superstar advertising the product we want it. We just need to
feel comfortable with our bodies and not get upset because we dont
look like these perfect people in magazines. Devan
Having an eating disorder has become a common problem in our socitey today. These ads that we see today just about everywhere provoke many of these easting dissorders. People see what is portrayed as bueatiful and healthy bodeies in these ads. However, most of these ads show people who are to way to skinny and underr-weight to be healthy. If you really think about it most of these people portrayed in these ads probably have an eating disorder themselves to achieve these so called "beautiful bodies." This shows just how decisive these ads really are.
-Evan Yearsley
The Bordo essay made some excellent points. Our society is falling apart because we care too much about what is not important. I have had many friends battle eating disorders because they feel that they need to look like the people on the magazine covers. It makes me very sad that we do not see the imperfections that these people, on the magazine covers, have. They look very happy but is their life really as great as it seems? I agree that it is hard to ignore these images because the media is constantly bombarding us with them. I hope that one day this "mold" will break and people will realize what is truly important.
-Cordonier
The Bordo essay brought up some important key points that our society is having issues with today. With all of the anorexic looking models pictured in magazines today, women are feeling pressured to look a certain way. Our society has taught its youth that being overweight is unacceptable, and people who are overweight do not fit in. However, at the same time we have a high rate of people with eating disorders because they are trying to be skinny like the models. If eveyone was ment to look like Barbie, then we would have been made that way.
--Andrew
I agree totally with the Bordo essay. We are shown on a daily basis the incredibly skinny models. Of course people are going to want to be this skinny if this is the only image we see. A size six is considered a plus size model. That's outrageous! I also agree where she talks about models being too skinny that it's not even attractive. It's like it beautiful to be as skinny as possible. Models aren't slender anymore they are skin and bones.
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