Week 8

2) The main idea of the article is how standards of beauty are being imposed on women.

3)Women's magazines are full of articles urging that if they can just lose those last twenty pounds, they will have it all.

Researchers show that women's magazines have ten and one half times more ads and articles promoting wight loss than men's magazines do.

Over three quarters of the covers of women's magazines include at least one message about how to change a woman's bodily appearance.

Television and movies reinforce the importance of a thin body as a measure of a women's worth.

4)Researchers generated a computer model of a woman with Barbie doll proportions to show if that if it was realistic a woman built like that would suffer from chronic diarrhea and die from malnutrition. It's just not healthy.

5) I don't think women should be portrayed as this barbie doll image in the media. Most women don't even look like that. I believe the media should have women that look like the average everyday women you would see around you. Beauty shouldn't be narrowed down to this thin model. Their are many beautiful women out there that are heavier and still embrace it. Having these thin models on magazine covers just brings about pressure and stress upon other women. It shouldn't be like that. Women should feel beautiful within their own skin and shouldn't have a magazine telling them what to look like.