Media is all around us, it 's in our house, school, and social life. My generation has been raised on it. There is not a day we don 't see it. We are informed about it through newspaper, Facebook, Television, online, and in video games. Is it good for us to be constantly bombarded with it? It causes body image issues for men, which results in them constantly thinking they are small and pushes them towards steroid use. It causes body image issues for women, which results in anorexia and eating disorders. Media causes us to be violent and it changes the way we live.
Men have body issues, we don 't like to admit but we do. I know I do. I see people in magazines and on TV that are big and ripped. I also will never be satisfied with how I look. I go to the gym five days a week, every week. Is the media effecting us? We see commercials that say, if you take this you will become ripped and shredded. The sad thing is that these people might have used that product but they are using a performance enhancer too. Take the action figure GI Joe. When the action figure first came out his arms were 12 inches and his body looked like a normal man. Ten year later a new GI Joe was made that had a six pack, chest, and 14 inch arms. Then another ten years later; the GI Joe now is ripped, has a full six pack of abs, chiseled chest, serratics muscle showing, and has 16 inch arms. (Pope 2008, 1:15.47). Just years later; they made a GI Joe that looks like the hulk, big arms, big chest, and six pack of abs. Television has a big effect on men and body issues. We grew up watching wrestling, WWF. We had our favorites; The Rock, Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, and Macho Man Randy Savage. They were ripped and powerful. Take Hulk Hogan, the man with the twenty-four inch arms. He was big into fitness; he’d go down to Gold’s gym and “hang and bang”. He would always say “train, eat your vegetables, take your vitamins, pray, be true to yourself and be a true American” (Hulgan, 2008, 4:28). These wrestles were ripped; they had a big chest, shoulders, arms, back, legs and six pack abs. They were our idols, we wanted to be ripped and powerful just like them. The sad thing is that they were on steroids. There is also influences in movies, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. You might know them from Rocky, Rambo, Conan, Casa Blanca, and Over the Top. They were ripped, they had single percent body fat, abs, shoulder, arms, and chest. They do not always look like they do in the movies. They train for the part; they …show more content…
They see these ultra-skinny models on television, social media, magazines, and in their social life. There is no way of escaping it either. Some of the women models they see have eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia. These women usually have skinny legs, flat stomachs, curves and a thigh gap. These models have gotten continuously thinner since Marilyn Monroe’s time in the 1950’s. A typical model now is twenty percent underweight. (CNN World News, 2006 pg. 44). “A person is diagnosed anorexic if they are fifteen percent underweight”. (American Psychiatric Association, 2000, pg.44). This unhealthy exposer makes women feel fat and makes them want to lose weight, but the sad thing is they can only loose so much weight and they still do not think they are skinny enough which causes them to get eating disorders. The common eating disorders women get are anorexia and bulimia. Both of these diseases are caused by women thinking that they are fat when actually they are deathly skinny. Anorexia is when women do not eat or eat very minimal calories. They are scared to take in any calories. Sometimes they are so scared of consuming calories that they do not put any lip balm or chap stick on. Bulimia is when a women eat normal or some eat as much as they can and after they are done with their meal they go and throw it up. “In the United States, 20 million women are diagnosed and suffers from an eating disorder. (Wade, Keski-Rahkonen, & Hudson, 2011,
Men have body issues, we don 't like to admit but we do. I know I do. I see people in magazines and on TV that are big and ripped. I also will never be satisfied with how I look. I go to the gym five days a week, every week. Is the media effecting us? We see commercials that say, if you take this you will become ripped and shredded. The sad thing is that these people might have used that product but they are using a performance enhancer too. Take the action figure GI Joe. When the action figure first came out his arms were 12 inches and his body looked like a normal man. Ten year later a new GI Joe was made that had a six pack, chest, and 14 inch arms. Then another ten years later; the GI Joe now is ripped, has a full six pack of abs, chiseled chest, serratics muscle showing, and has 16 inch arms. (Pope 2008, 1:15.47). Just years later; they made a GI Joe that looks like the hulk, big arms, big chest, and six pack of abs. Television has a big effect on men and body issues. We grew up watching wrestling, WWF. We had our favorites; The Rock, Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, and Macho Man Randy Savage. They were ripped and powerful. Take Hulk Hogan, the man with the twenty-four inch arms. He was big into fitness; he’d go down to Gold’s gym and “hang and bang”. He would always say “train, eat your vegetables, take your vitamins, pray, be true to yourself and be a true American” (Hulgan, 2008, 4:28). These wrestles were ripped; they had a big chest, shoulders, arms, back, legs and six pack abs. They were our idols, we wanted to be ripped and powerful just like them. The sad thing is that they were on steroids. There is also influences in movies, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. You might know them from Rocky, Rambo, Conan, Casa Blanca, and Over the Top. They were ripped, they had single percent body fat, abs, shoulder, arms, and chest. They do not always look like they do in the movies. They train for the part; they …show more content…
They see these ultra-skinny models on television, social media, magazines, and in their social life. There is no way of escaping it either. Some of the women models they see have eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia. These women usually have skinny legs, flat stomachs, curves and a thigh gap. These models have gotten continuously thinner since Marilyn Monroe’s time in the 1950’s. A typical model now is twenty percent underweight. (CNN World News, 2006 pg. 44). “A person is diagnosed anorexic if they are fifteen percent underweight”. (American Psychiatric Association, 2000, pg.44). This unhealthy exposer makes women feel fat and makes them want to lose weight, but the sad thing is they can only loose so much weight and they still do not think they are skinny enough which causes them to get eating disorders. The common eating disorders women get are anorexia and bulimia. Both of these diseases are caused by women thinking that they are fat when actually they are deathly skinny. Anorexia is when women do not eat or eat very minimal calories. They are scared to take in any calories. Sometimes they are so scared of consuming calories that they do not put any lip balm or chap stick on. Bulimia is when a women eat normal or some eat as much as they can and after they are done with their meal they go and throw it up. “In the United States, 20 million women are diagnosed and suffers from an eating disorder. (Wade, Keski-Rahkonen, & Hudson, 2011,