INTRO

Growing up in a world filled with technology, I would say that it is fairly easy to be influenced by the media and how people are portrayed in the media. Somewhere along the way of “making lives easier” technology took a hard left and started concentrating on grabbing the public eye’s attention. To do so, the media started to use women’s greatest weakness: her insecurities about her looks. They started spewing out ads with paper-thin models wearing skimpy outfits pressed up against a hunky shirtless man, with the words “BUY OUR SOAP” splayed across the top. Really, though, written between the lines is “…and you will look like this model who we actually photo-shopped to look like this and you will also end up with a man who looks like this, all because you bought our soap!” Media today has a large impact on women’s, and even men’s, lives. The amount of ads that portray thin, beautiful, admirable women using their product has greatly risen over the years. How far is the media willing to go to sell their product? Far enough to push a women to starvation because of the eating disorder she developed because she didn’t look like a certain actress she saw in a movie or that model she saw in an ad? Because some women will take drastic measures such as that to look like the super skinny models they see in ads. So really, how far is the media willing to push women? Far enough, that there aren't going to be any women to sell their product to? The answer is too far, I’m afraid.