As the media develops technologically, the more influence it has on society. The ideal image of what is considered “beautiful” is decided upon what the media provide us with. Therefore, younger girls and boys are blinded by the unrealistic beauty that media portrays. They are “brainwashed” by the media to look a certain way and not single flaw is allowed. With the biased ways of how media and the entertainment companies run, society’s view of beauty is limited to perfectness.
The topic of how the media negatively affects the image of young girls will provide a reason to why the media should stop limiting the idea of what counts as being “beautiful.” Mostly young girls and women are stressed about their weight, skin, and overall appearance. This is caused by the typical make-up advertisements, such as “Maybelline,” which their motto is “Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline,” or the weight-loss commercials such as “Weight-Watchers,” which is promoted by singer Jennifer Hudson. These are the causing factors to young girls desperately wanting plastic surgery or being diagnosed with anorexia.
My thesis on this issue is that the media negatively influences young girls to cause harm to their bodies by strictly defining an “ideal” beauty that is unrealistic. To prove this thesis, I will use evidence from YWCA’s article called “The Consequences of America’s Beauty Obsession on Women & Girls,” an article called, “Images in Magazines and On Television Increase Body Dissatisfaction,” from Science Daily, and other advertisements on society’s idea of beauty. With statistics and persuasive articles from online sources, I will prove how the media influences young girls to eat, dress, and talk a certain way. The effectiveness of media continues to increase as more and more commercials are created with skinny models, flawless skin, and ultimate perfect beauty.
