What do you think about Shay's description of a model? Shay and Tally have a skewed view of our time, but what have they got right?
This subject I could go on and on forever about, but I will try to keep it short. I think Shay has A LOT of truth in her explaination of the model, especially when she speaks of "the disease."
Any time you open a magazine in our society (as Shay and Tally did) all you see are descriptions of body image. Since I knew this blog topic was coming up, this weekend I made sure to thumb through a few. On the cover of one magazine there were pictures of celeb "beach bodies"...the journalist were demeaning these women for having NORMAL bodies. We have flaws, that's what makes us human!
I opened another one to see models on a runway for spring fashion...stick thin with legs 8 miles long. Hardly anyone in our society looks that way. I did some research...the average size for a women in America is 12, not the 0 or 2 models are. At times models are 5'10" or taller weighing only 110 lbs...that's a healthy weight for someone who is FIVE feet tall, not almost SIX.
For teenage girls...they open these magazines and see these models/ celebrities who are rails, and think they have to be like that too or they're not good enough.
Coming from a background in dance and gymnastics, I've seen the lengths girls will go to to get to where they want to be. Weekly weigh in ruined my body image as a kid...coach would say, you gained a pound, more conditioning...or you sidelined this week from the routine because you don't look as good as whomever in the leotard. WE DON'T NEED THIS IN OUR WORLD! So, on the one had society in Uglies may be werid, but at least those aspects aren't present.
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Hi Mrs Copeland! Just wanted to comment on 4th paragraph
ReplyDelete"For teenage girls...they open these magazines and see these models/ celebrities who are rails, and think they have to be like that too or they're not good enough."
Anyway about a month ago there was this commercial that was on air about this little girl (id say maybe 8 yrs old) thinking about where everywhere u turn there are bulletin boards and all that stuff with women looking like twigs, and it was saying about how girls look up to those models and want to be like them, anyway it was advertising money for a foundation or somethin' but it has the right idea about society in these times. Reading your post made me think about that commercial so just wanted to post that. -Eric G