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Amy Cortes Instructor: Malcolm Campbell English 1102 2/12/14 Social Medias Influence on the Body Image of Women We live in a orl! here technology has a!vance! tremen!ously" #hings have been invente! li$e computers% televisions% phones% an! various more electronic e&uipments" 'es% all these inventions have helpe! us in a!vancing an! there is many pros% but li$e everything% all things have their cons as ell" (ne o) the cons o) the abun!ance in technology e have to!ay is that social me!ia has negatively in)luence! omen*s ays o) thin$ing hen it comes to bo!y image" #his has cause! many problems ithin omen such as insecurity% lo sel)+esteem issues% an! !iseases ithin themselves" What is Social Media? ,ocial me!ia% as !e)ine! by Webster*s !ictionary% are -)orms o) electronic communication through hich users create online communities to share in)ormation% i!eas% personal messages% an! other content". /asically% e0amples o) social me!ia are )aceboo$% youtube% articles poste! online li$e yahoo% an! many other things" ,ocial me!ia is so broa!% it*s ma!e up o) a lot% especially since e live in such a technological orl!" ,ocial me!ia can be )oun! any here )rom one*s phone% to the computer or the #"1" It can be accessible to everybo!y in the orl! an! is accessible by most people living to!ay" Ever since technology impacte! our society% many things have altere!" ,ocial me!ia is use! as a source o) entertainment" Along ith social me!ia being a source o) entertainment% there is also actors2resses3% singers% mo!els% an! more ho are also gran!

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sources o) entertainment" #hese celebrities are a!mire! by many people aroun! the orl!" ,ince they are so a!mire!% the people ho a!mire them strongly ant to be li$e them" Even i) they !o not sho it consciously% !eep !o n subconsciously% those a!mirers ant to be 4ust li$e their )avorite celebrity" #hey ant to loo$ li$e them% act li$e them% basically be them" 5r" Carole 6iebermen% a psychiatrist state!: Consciously or unconsciously% people thin$ that i) they loo$ li$e a particular celebrity% it ill bring them the po er that a celebrity has% the po er to attract people% to be a heartbrea$er% to have guys or girls s ooning over them". #his is not healthy upon people" All this pressure though% has ta$en a toll on hat omen believe on bo!y image base! on hat they see in social me!ia% re)lecte! by celebrities" Celebrities in Social Media Celebrities a))ect omen*s vie s on bo!y image by playing along ith social me!ia" (ne sees celebrities* )aces on maga7ines% online in articles% billboar!s% an! 4ust about any here" 5o these pictures sho the true images o) the celebrities8 Most o) the time% !i))erent $in!s o) so)t are is use! to alter these images" (ne o) those popular e0amples is 9hotoshop" 9hotoshop is the orl!*s most a!vance! !igital imaging so)t are 2-9hotoshop CC / :A;<3" An e0ample o) 9hotoshop being use! on a celebrity% is the one on 6ena 5unham" ,he is an actress on =/( ho ants to sho the true si!e to hat she is physically" 1ogue !i! a photoshoot on her an! completely altere! her appearance 2>9? ,ta))3" #his is )re&uently !one ith celebrities" /ecause o) this constant attempt )or per)ection by the me!ia% girls an! omen get tric$e! into thin$ing that is ho those celebrities truly loo$" /ecause o) this% they try so har! to be that" ,ome e0amples o) 9hotoshop images are sho n belo :

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/oth pictures ere ac&uire! through /logspot

As one can see% 9hotoshop altere! these omen*s bo!y to the point here it sho s o)) -per)ection. in the human eye" (bviously it is not real% but many !on*t reali7e that an! omen try to imitate hat they see" Sexualizing Women in Social Media >ot only are omen portraye! as per)ect beings ith the use o) 9hotoshop% but they are also se0uali7e!" It is every here in commercials% social me!ia% etc" #here as a stu!y !one on the se0uali7ation o) omen by comparing Rolling Stone covers o) the past to no " It sho s that in the 2000*s se0uali7ation o) omen in Rolling Stone alone has increase! by ABC 2>auert3" As one can see it has booste! up greatly over time" 9sych Central riter ?ic$ >auert states: We !on*t necessarily thin$ it*s problematic )or omen to be portraye! as Dse0y"* /ut e !o thin$ it is problematic hen nearly all images o) omen !epict them not simply as Dse0y omen* but as passive ob4ects )or someone else*s se0ual pleasure" As he sai!% omen are being vie e! as ob4ects" #hat ma$es omen )eel un orthy" /ut hy !o omen still ant to be li$e that8 9ossibly because it most li$ely gets the attention o) men% an! most omen crave that attention as ell" #here)ore% not only !o omen try har! to shape their

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bo!y image because o) the pressures o) celebrities but also because o) se0uali7e! omen an! ho they are !epicte! in social me!ia" Are Men, hen it comes to Social Media, the cause of Womens Issues ith their Body? A lot o) omen blame men no a !ays )or their insecurities ith their bo!y images" Men are to blame 4ust as e&ually as omen themselves" ,ocial me!ia is ma!e up by both se0es" /ecause o) this both have a cause to this" Men ant to see attractive omen an! omen ant to pursue that" /ut omen in the me!ia also en)orce in!irectly that you have to loo$ an! have a per)ect bo!y% to be recogni7e! by others" #his rubs o)) on regular oman% an! that rubs o)) on other omen" /ecause o) this% it is li$e a never en!ing cycle o) )in!ing per)ection ithin your bo!y" !o does this Affect Women? As state! previously% omen try so har! to be something they are not" #hey ant to be accepte! an! love! 4ust li$e those celebrities or omen on television are" #his a))ects omen greatly ithin themselves an! their bo!y image" #his pressure causes problems ith omen*s sel)+esteem% it ma$es them gro more insecure% an! some try too har! to the point o) bo!y mo!i)ications" Accor!ing to Whitbourne% all these pressures by social me!ia causes omen to have lo sel)+esteem ithin their bo!ies" Women*s sel)+esteem has become loo$ing goo! physically as the source to high sel)+esteem instea! o) hat they ac&uire in the insi!e" #hey have built this outloo$ on li)e in hich they )eel li$e they have to loo$ goo! in or!er to be accepte! by their peers" #his is because o) ho pressuring social me!ia is" Women struggle a lot hen it comes to sel)+esteem an! to )eel content ith ho they loo$" Women nee! to stop getting blin!e! by society an! social me!ia" I) social me!ia sho e! omen )or ho they naturally% actually loo$% then omen

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ill )eel more at peace ith themselves" I) this happene!% slo ly% but surely omen*s sel)+ esteem as a hole ill boost" Insecurity% 4ust li$e lo sel)+esteem is one o) the e))ects o) the social me!ia pressures that are put on omen" Although very similar% insecurity an! lo sel)+esteem are not the same" It is one o) the e))ects that come )rom having a lo sel)+esteem" Insecurity is being raise! ithin omen an! con)i!ence is being lo ere!" #hey ant to be the i!ea o) -per)ection.% but o) course% that is impossible to achieve" Women get scare! to share pictures o) themselves on social me!ia% because they )eel they ill be 4u!ge! because they are not -goo!+loo$ing. in their o n eyes" :or e0ample% girls see )amous omen get so many li$es an! comments on their pictures an! hen an -average. oman posts a picture o) hersel) she !esires the same amount o) attention" #o be able to share a photograph o) yoursel) is a bol! move on social net or$s no a !ays" ,ome omen also try very har!" ,ome !o their ma$e+up an! hair an! it isn*t even to go out% it*s to ta$e a picture an! share it on social me!ia" #hey !o this so they themselves can )eel -beauti)ul. ithin an! so they can get more attention than they oul! i) they ere 4ust their natural sel)" Even though some omen share their pictures% !oing all the e0tra stu)) mentione! previously 4ust sho s that they are truly insecure !eep !o n an! they 4ust ant to be accepte!" /o!y Mo!i)ication is no very popular in the time era that e live in" #his is also one o) the many e))ects o) social me!ia" Women no get surgeries to get )eatures that they have al ays !reame! o)" Where !o they get these i!eas8 :rom social me!ia" #hey get surgeries to have chee$ !imples% breast implants% nose 4obs an! so much more" A great e0ample o) this is the -human /arbie." 1aleria 6u$yanova is a ?ussian oman ho has gotten her bo!y mo!i)ie! an! has use! ma$e up in or!er to loo$ li$e a -per)ect. /arbie !oll 2pictures belo 3" =er goal: to achieve )ame 2Co03" Again% this is because she is subconsciously pressure! by social me!ia" It is also a

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continuous chain because she ants to see$ )ame an! she has achieve! it because o) her loo$s an! no other omen ill ant to achieve that too" All o) this is !one because omen ant attention because the attention )amous omen get in social me!ia"

"iseases #here are certain !iseases that arise hen people )ocus a lot on their bo!y image" #hese !iseases usually root !o n to hat has been sai! previously" #hese !iseases stem o)) sel)+esteem an! insecurity issues" Everything buil!s up" It buil!s up to its ma0imum hen it reaches the high point o) !iseases" ,ome o) the !iseases that are cause! by the previous issues are anore0ia% bulimia% an! bo!y !ysphormic !isor!er" Anore0ia is a !isease in hich one has a severe )ear o) gaining eight even i) they are un!er eight" >o matter i) they are in shape% they still see they are not in their hea!s" #hey e0tremely !iet to the point that it is unhealthy" 2/olton3 #his is a both mental an! physical illness" #his !isease is very common ithin omen% as are the rest" (ne o) the main reasons omen result to this is because they are blin!e! by the me!ia an! )eel pressure! to be as Ds$inny* as can be" >e0t% there is /ulimia" It is very similar to anore0ia as it is the )ear o) getting obese" Instea! o) e0treme !ieting li$e in anore0ia% people ith bulimia ma$e themselves vomit% e0ercise

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a)ter Dbinge* eating% an! ta$e la0atives" Instea! o) limiting their calories% bulimics ta$e in as many calories as they ant an! then -re!eem. themselves by ta$ing it out o) their system 2/olton3" #his is very e0treme% an! can lea! to orse things later on" 6astly% there is bo!y !ysphormic !isor!er" #his is a !isease hich unli$e the others is more concerne! ith the )ace than the hole bo!y" #hey try to cover the imper)ections they have in their )ace by hi!ing it" #his ta$es over them mentally an! they obsess ith trying to hi!e or )i0 those small imper)ections 2/olton3" Again% this is a result o) craving per)ection an! being accepte! in society/social me!ia" As one can see% bo!y image issues ithin omen an! ho it is cause! by social me!ia is very comple0" It is li$e a chain reaction hich can lea! to !angerous things li$e the !iseases state! previously an! i) not treate! early it coul! possibly even lea! to !eath" All those is hat many omen in our society have to su))er in or!er to impress an! be li$e the rest ithin social me!ia" 'es% social me!ia is a great thing% it connects us to others an! the orl! aroun! us% but it negatively impacts omen as ell" A change nee!s to happen here omen are content ith ho they truly are as a person% ithout bo!y mo!i)ications% ma$e+up% or 9hotoshop" Women nee! to learn that being their natural% true sel) is the closest thing to per)ect they coul! ever achieve" Everyone is beauti)ul" 'ou are beauti)ul"

#his as a goo! )irst !ra)tH #he intro as soli!% point o) vie an! stan!point as clear as ell as the )raming o) i!eas ithin the bo!y" /e care)ul ith grammar" I trie! to mar$ the ones that ere overtly obvious but I !i! leave a )e unmar$e!" #ry rea!ing your paper out lou! an! listening to sentences that can be altere! a bit" 6i$e I state! in the comments section% there ere some re!un!ancies happening or overly state! things" Iust to e0pan!

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your sub4ect a little hat aboutJ =o !oes social me!ia a))ect the ay men treat omen8 =o !oes social me!ia a))ect young omen an! girls8

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