Depiction of Acceptable Body Types in the Media

[Ryuzaki]

The post-war feminist movement has largely coincided with the increasing use of mass consumer advertising, some of which relies on depictions of women that provoke different reactions. Typically the discourse relates to the impact such images have on how the women who are subjected to them perceive themselves, and any impact this has on their behaviour. This same reaction is seen in modern male media, insofar as a tight, ripped body is perceived as desirous. There seems to exist a resistance to non-thin or muscular body types.

How do you think this has an impact on the average person, or even further, on you, yourself??

[boogieknight]

Egh, it's fantasies that are being sold, not actual people. That some human beings look vaguely like the media's graven images should not be given any serious thought. While it is impossible to think that we are completely free of these influences, I really doubt that anyone with solid human values would be corrupted by the sales pitch.

It's crap, but it is fair to say that the young and impressionable willl have to be taught the difference between reality and the crap on TV.

[thetragicprince]

what is an average person really? its safe to say that the media has influenced the peoples thoughts on how they should look but really people ultimately decide to make themselves look good

mostly because we live in an era of shallowness it does not matter what people say whther its on tv or in reality in the end people will themselves judge others by mere appearance alone its easy to blame ourselves but its easier to blame others as certain activist do =P