The "Perfect" Women

This past week in class we discussed how females are influenced by the media.  We watched movies to see how they digitally enhance pictures of models for certain ads.  We watched the extent that they go to to make the model look perfect.  In one case the man who was doing the photoshop used four different bodies of models in order to create that one perfect women.  In our society, the way that women are portrayed on ads gives both men and women a false sense of how a women should look.  Men waste their time trying to find the one perfect ideal women who will measure up to the women in ads and in reality he will never find her because those women aren't real.  Women are greatly impacted by this faulty advertising because they spend most of their life trying new diets and work out plans in order to look exactly like those other women.  There is a rising epidemic of anorexia and bulimia in our society because of the way women are portrayed.  They make models look impossibly skinny and make there skin look virtually pore-less which no one can achieve.  As women, we need to realize how important it is to love the way our body looks and to not chase and unreal image that we could never achieve through healthy means if at all.

~Liv