rewere a few that were known to be anorexic and bulimic. We saw themeveryday in school destroying their bodies, and for what reason? Justbecause of the pressure society put on them to have the ideal body. The effects of the cultural values of the ultimate body type cansomewhat be seen just by looking out the window of my own house. Everyday there is an innumerable amount of people walking andrunning in the streets. It seems as if everyday there are more peoplepassing by. Some of these people might be exercising to stay healthy, butit can be assumed that the majority are doing it to lose weight. Forexample, I am sure these two women I see out there every single dayrunning and sweating are doing so because they want to change theirbody. One place where this emphasis on the thin body type can be seen agreat deal is on television. All you see on TV are skinny women whohave the ideal body. Models on commercials and other things are a mainexample of this. Women see these models everywhere and want to looklike they do because they feel that is the only way to be accepted insociety. If women with all different body types were models anddepicted on TV as beautiful as well, then maybe there wouldn’t be such aproblem with young women not liking themselves the way they are. Also on television, are all the exercise equipment and videos beingadvertised. This shows how being thin is such a factor in peoples lives. Women see these commercials and the people make it seem like having aperfect body is so important in being happy in life and that beingoverweight is wrong. Plus, convienatly all the people in the commercialspromoting the product have the ideal body type. In conclusion, it is clear that the way the ideal female body type ispushed on young women extremely influences their lives. It causesthem to dislike their own bodies so much they do just about anything tochange themselves. This ideal body type leads women t...
