In today’s culture, there is a cloud that simmers over teenage girls; this cloud is called body image, it lingers and constantly pressures girls into thinking that they need to attain a “standard” weight and have a “certain” body type to be appealing to society. One contributing factor is the media; it has poisoned the minds of our generation and now the damage seems to be irreversible. Girls are constantly bombarded with ads that tell girls they need to groom, get that bikini wax, buy this facial, have this hair style, buy the latest clothes and keep that weight down. The list goes on and on, the focus isn’t on the products anymore it’s on shaming girls into buying products in hopes of attaining that model figure. Although she successfully uses pathos to show how girls have been manipulated and succumbed to society's view of body image in her article, “From Girl's bodies, Girls selves”, Elline Lipkin fails to strengthen her argument by discarding the opposing view points forcing the reader into a one sided opinionated…