The Importance Of Sandra's Idea

“People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder,” according to Salma Hayek. Society should have a positive outlook on body image, rather than face a disorder that can change one’s whole life. Negative body image can result from the media, with photoshop and editing, celebrity fad diets, and society’s look at the perfect image. Negative body image can lead to dangerous eating disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia. It can also take a risk to unhealthy habits, such as smoking, alcohol, and drugs. It is important to stress the effects of body image, because the world still struggles with this today. Society should not be affected by

A day hardly ever goes by without hearing something about body image in our society. It seems to be all around us today and there is little we can do to avoid it being around us. I don’t like seeing this affecting our society, because I see it changing us in a bad way. In gathering information on just how and why people worry about their body image, ideas on how to prevent this obsess on were also

You know what’s so beautiful about imperfection? It creates a space for everyone to share their uniqueness to our world. In the article, Hello, I Am Fat by author Lindy West discusses the issues of being treated poorly and wrongfully shamed for one’s body appearance. Spreading negatively, shame, or hatred towards individuals who are “fat” can truly affect a person’s life including yours. West felt obligated to explain the importance behind fat acceptance in today’s society to her current boss, Dan. Who believes he’s constructing a better work environment and helping individuals by sharing his rather “tame” statements to the public. Society is often times our worst critic by making us believe that body image and personal health will evaluate a person’s success.

What happens one is constantly reminded about the way they look, from families, friends, and professionals by “good intentions”? It is going to take “a lot of stones”(Geissler 331). Wood-Barcalow, in her paper “‘But I Like My Body’: Positive body image characteristics and a holistic model for young-adult women” provides a more through analysis on fat acceptance. Not only should individuals love and accept their bodies, they also need acceptance from others (114); For example, support from friends and families, reassurance through religious beliefs, and healthy communications with their own body via diet and exercise, for they will confirm if one’s body is at its best

Low self-esteem is, and always will be, a growing issue in the world. There will always be people who struggle with it more than others and others less. And some people want to change it, some people want to help other people so that they never have to face the harsh reality of low self-esteem. And some people just don’t want any help at all. But of course, without a change, body image will just get worse. And if there is change, perhaps this way that social media and people view reality can change how everything is going

Sandra Day-O’Connor was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1981 by President Ronald Regan. An amazing woman, O’Connor’s accomplishments are many. After, surprisingly, being accepted into Stanford law school, O’Connor graduated third in her class of 102 in 1952 (Institute 2000). O’Connor, like many women of her time, could not get a job as a lawyer because of prejudice and discrimination. This did not stop this determined woman, or even slow her down! The road from a remote southwestern Arizona ranch to the first female Republican Senate majority leader and then first female Supreme Court Justice was fraught with stereotypical female prejudice.

Born Sandra Day in March 1930, she grew-up on a cattle ranch in Arizona called the “Lazy B”. Sandra graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics and she also earned her L.L.B. from Stanford Law” (bio.com). Sandra has always been motivated which allowed her to obtain her degree within two years instead of the usual three to four years. Within six months after graduation, she was married to John O’Connor.

No doubt, when people express how they feel on social media about other’s bodies, it can affect the people they have on their social media. Because they can be going through the same thing as the person they are describing. Alex Brunstad in “Body Shaming and Social Media”, explains how she feels about social media and that it actually affects her when someone talks about other people’s bodies. The author explains how she feels saying that “social media, originally a platform by which I hoped to give and receive support from likeminded individuals, quickly became a toxic environment for strengthening my relationship with my body”. People that feel insecure about their body expect that others would accept them on how they look and receive support on how they truly feel about themselves. Since they already know how they look, they do not need a remainder.

In Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid, a native Antiguan named Annie John struggles with growing up and maturing. During Annie's younger years she was very close to her mother. Annie’s mother was like her lifeline, but we see them grow far apart over time. Of course, during Annie’s teen years she starts to rebel against her mother which causes friction in the family. Throughout this novel Annie dreams several times. It seem like her dreams are irrelevant to the situation at hand but I believe they have a purpose and a reason. The purpose of Annie's dreams is to show us the emotional states that she goes through while maturing. These states include separation, rebellion, and healing during her growth from childhood to the verge

The media has distorted people’s views on the way they look at their own body image. The media has shown what their ideal body type is, while leaving people to feel as if the average weight is not good enough. (Cardosi, 2006) We live in a world where people feel as if having zero body fat is the idea body type to have. Pictures of models for clothing stores, bathing suits, lingerie etc. all exhibit to this to be true. Body image is perceived to be negatively influenced by the media and the way that the media displays their models. Parents, teachers, adolescence and even children all find themselves to be comparing themselves based on what the media exposes. (Levine & Murnen, 2009)

How many times have you opened up one of your social media accounts and saw a post or something pertaining to the body or body image issues? I can guarantee you it happens nearly every day. It doesn’t matter whether it was something positive or negative being said, it’s always there. We spend way too much time obsessing about how we look, and if we fit the perfect body image standers, and we completely forget what is really important in life. In my opinion I think we should stop talking about the body image all together and focus more on intelligence. The first reason is that we have exhausted the topic of body image and body shaming and it’s time to move on. Secondly, if you accomplish something in life and leave a legacy

To begin, body image is affected by social media. When men and women see ads and magazines with people with perfect bodies that are impossible to get, it lowers self esteem about their body image. In addition, these images are mostly photoshopped also. Patrick Kelleher, from the article “No body is perfect: is it possible to be happy with our bodies when we are constantly being bombarded with images of perfection?” explains “The images we see get stuck in our head, it makes everyone think they need to look like that.” (Kelleher). The text says that social media makes it impossible to feel good about are bodies. In fact, the images we see are photoshopped, but no one knows that. Women and men get distracted from these pictures and makes them obsessed with trying to look like that. This can also lead to eating disorders and anxiety. People get affected by social media when images get stuck in our heads. What social media doesn't show is imperfect bodies. In

Body Image Amy Wambach said, “I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself.” That brings us to Enhancing Your Body Image by Rebecca J. Donatelle were she wanted people to emphasize on their health risks, creating plans to change and to make a better lifestyle decision to make them feel better about their Image. Rebecca wanted people to care about themselves and not concentrate on the outside pressures sources placed on people. We have always glorified the body images of celebrities and the culture without taking on the effects placed on men and women and the detrimental psychological problems that are attributed from body image.

Often, people of all ages, race, and gender catch themselves gazing into mirrors for hours, blaming themselves for the way they look, not realizing that the media is actually the one to blame for many people’s body image. Body image is the way people see themselves, or how they assume other people see them. It is not likely to see a plus sized model in a magazine or a model on the runway with blemishes on her face. A person’s negative perception of their own body is not because they think it is wrong to look and be healthy; it is because the media is telling them that being a size 2 with flawless skin is healthy and beautiful.

In today’s society we let the media decide everything in our lives from what clothes we should wear, music we should listen to, and how we should look. One of the biggest problems that both men and women face is body shaming, because the media sets standards for young kids and young adults., they often times try and fit the description of “perfect” which leads these people to either be depressed because they do not look like people want them to look or harm themselves in order to achieve the desired look. The most common ways the media shames both men and women are by celebrities and how they are the “perfect” body, publishing magazines of what is the ideal man and woman, and by the people who believe being “too” fat is bad and being “too” skinny is bad.