By Ellie
Any average person worries about their appearance, but teenage girls might take this over the top. All ladies want to be like those girls in magazines, but those girls in magazines aren’t real! They are just photo-edits.
Why are girls so self-conscious? It’s because they see the women in magazines, and too be that weight and that pretty really IS too good to be real. When will those 14 year olds understand this? Flicking through magazines, which are especially made for teen girls, couldn’t be more dangerous. Although it doesn’t seem like this, you would be surprised.
Girls would be looking through magazines, and think to their selves, ‘I want to be like HER!’ What they don’t realize is that ‘she’ isn’t real, and it is all photo shop, but the real problem is what causes this, and how we can prevent it. This is starting to become a larger and larger problem, and it comes from all different reasons. It isn’t their fault; they are just victims of the media. The media is very controlling and can be proved that it can make people think certain things.
Firstly, one of the most common reasons is being bullied at school. When girls are called ‘fat, ugly, smelly, etc.’ can put girls into a deep depression and can obviously make girls feel self-conscious. This can also be escalated into self-harm, if it isn’t sorted out quickly enough. This can make girls want to be changed. After seeing celebrities and models on television is very upsetting for self-conscious girls, and they turn to anorexia to be ‘skinny’ like the models. They see Barbie as a role model, but they don’t know the truth, nobody is actually perfect like that and as skinny as television. Again, media is controlling. Barbie isn’t actually able to walk, if she was a real life person, because you can’t be that skinny, and that tall, just like Barbie. Denise Winterman says,’ she would not be able to stand up because her body frame would be so unbalanced. A real life Barbie would simply fall over.’
Secondly, just looking at the media has several effects on a teenage girl. The girl would skip meals, and have extra exercise to replace the meals. They would get skinnier, but still not be pleased with themselves. It’s a very upsetting thing to think about, but some girls turn suicidal, because what they see in magazines and the mirror is different. This is because one is real, and the other isn’t. Do you agree with what the media is doing? How do you feel about it? What should be done?
See the difference? Those teens don’t, but they should.
Why are girls so self-conscious? It’s because they see the women in magazines, and too be that weight and that pretty really IS too good to be real. When will those 14 year olds understand this? Flicking through magazines, which are especially made for teen girls, couldn’t be more dangerous. Although it doesn’t seem like this, you would be surprised.
Girls would be looking through magazines, and think to their selves, ‘I want to be like HER!’ What they don’t realize is that ‘she’ isn’t real, and it is all photo shop, but the real problem is what causes this, and how we can prevent it. This is starting to become a larger and larger problem, and it comes from all different reasons. It isn’t their fault; they are just victims of the media. The media is very controlling and can be proved that it can make people think certain things.
Firstly, one of the most common reasons is being bullied at school. When girls are called ‘fat, ugly, smelly, etc.’ can put girls into a deep depression and can obviously make girls feel self-conscious. This can also be escalated into self-harm, if it isn’t sorted out quickly enough. This can make girls want to be changed. After seeing celebrities and models on television is very upsetting for self-conscious girls, and they turn to anorexia to be ‘skinny’ like the models. They see Barbie as a role model, but they don’t know the truth, nobody is actually perfect like that and as skinny as television. Again, media is controlling. Barbie isn’t actually able to walk, if she was a real life person, because you can’t be that skinny, and that tall, just like Barbie. Denise Winterman says,’ she would not be able to stand up because her body frame would be so unbalanced. A real life Barbie would simply fall over.’
Secondly, just looking at the media has several effects on a teenage girl. The girl would skip meals, and have extra exercise to replace the meals. They would get skinnier, but still not be pleased with themselves. It’s a very upsetting thing to think about, but some girls turn suicidal, because what they see in magazines and the mirror is different. This is because one is real, and the other isn’t. Do you agree with what the media is doing? How do you feel about it? What should be done?
See the difference? Those teens don’t, but they should.