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So it occurred to me while I was at Barnes & Noble last week, looking at women’s magazines, the media portrayals of women are really quite disturbing. Rarely is there a women on the cover of a magazine in a non revealing outfit or over done make-up. From what I saw, the popular magazines are full of women and girls who are white, dressed in proactive clothing, and are desperately thin. Women’s magazines, such as Health, Shape, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire are full of articles, printed in big, bold letters on the cover, on how to shed those holiday pounds or how to have the perfect look.
It seems ridiculous that these standards of being unnaturally thin are imposed to those who are curvier and are more mature looking than twig models. And if it’s not women needing to lose weight, they are aging and they need all these products. I’m over it. It’s contradicts what these magazines say they’re about: that they are for curvy women and want them to be healthy. This certainly doesn’t promote it and its no wonder many women strive to become what they cannot.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Progress # 4 - Health Deceptions
Posted by Lauren at 6:27 AM
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I agree with the fact that women's magazines do display people who are thin, dressed provocatively, etc. Even though no one is forced to read or look at these magazines/images, people follow them. Yes it is deceiving, but magazines will print whatever they think will make money however unfortunate that is.
Laurenn-
I completely agree with everything that you said in this blog. I know that when I'm in line at the grocery store I read the all the different magazines. I know what you're talking about when you say that the magazines say that they are all about the healthy image, but then they are filled with ads with models who are stick thin. They always have things on their covers that say "How to Lose 10 pounds, fast!" Or how the particular movie star or model on the cover lost their weight. America has become obssesed with weight! The magazines print what they do because they know that it will sell, and if you ask any random woman in the U.S. they will probably say that they would like to lose a couple pounds at least.
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