| Martine McCucheon was a size 12 once upon a time... Then I think she discovered the joys of pie and cake (mmm pie...).
Funny thing is articals and studies that show that young girls are negatively influenced by the media have been published almost every month of every year for decades... the media thrill at getting to show these things, then on the next page/tv program show a size 6 stick and call her fat... its a cycle that will continue untill people stop buying those f**king awful gossip/teen/womens magazines that help enforce it - they're the ones who will show a model who's gained 1lb and call her a hippo... or certain news rags (generally with thier titles in white on a red back ground) who will say anyone over a size 2 is horendously fat while also condeming the media (someone should tell them that includes thier own publications) for doing just that.
If we as a nation keep shelling out money for that shit then we will keep being force fed that sameshit... and children will continue to grow up in a world that has this image of beauty.
But as for girls image - it's men in 20 - 30 years I worry for... with games consoles etc becoming more popular than actually playing sports, with obesity on ther rise and PE not being of much importance to schools, I see boys growing into little fat lumps (with massively powerful thumbs) who'll see footballers or olympic athletes and will have thier own crisis - because even if the media and the nation take note of how girls see themselves because of the media, the media and the nation can only think of 1 thing at a time... |