Woman Today
Today American women can never be too thin or too pretty. In most cases thin associates with beauty, so the present ideal is a thin, fit, healthy young woman. In magazines complied with models and advertisements, billboards on the highway, and actresses on TV, the message of what women should look like is everywhere. The inescapable presence of these images in effect shapes the image of women today literally increasing procedures of plastic and cosmetic surgery.
"Guy's don't like fat girls." The dreading sentence I've grown up hearing since middle school. It's unfortunate that the media influences American society to the point that it defines the "ideal woman." According to Sharlene Hesse-Biber, author of Am I Thin Enough Yet? , "Cultural messages on the rewards of thinness and the punishments of obesity are everywhere. Most women accept society's standards of beauty as ‘the way things are" (535). Advertising is a powerful educational force in our culture due to the simple fact......
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