Brooklyn's Neighborhood: Banning the Bad Body Image
Written by Brooklyn Draisey Columnist
I’m looking through my favorite magazine. I’m turning the pages when a full page ad shows up. A girl is taking up the entire thing. She’s wearing nothing but a bikini that leaves her boobs barely covered. She’s so skinny that her ribs are showing, and her arms look like sticks. I would call this girl extremely malnourished, but she’s part of the stereotype of beauty that society holds. This stereotype is formed by the media and negative people who have nothing better to do.
The media loves to show the stereotypical form of beauty. Wherever you go, billboards and magazines full of models can always be found. The women are tall, slim, and young. The men are muscular, hairless and can vary in age. People feel bad about themselves when they see that they don’t look like these pictures, but it’s impossible to compare yourself to a picture that isn’t even close to the original.
The photos are edited to make the models look as unrealistic as possible, even after the often unhealthy models are made over for hours. The original people and the end photos look vastly different. But people don’t think of that. They think, Why can’t I look like that?
Other people also contribute a lot to the shaming of certain body types. People are constantly putting each other down by calling them fat or ugly. For some it can just be forgotten, but for others, those comments can be hard to shake. A lot of people make these comments in order to feel better about themselves. That way of thinking is also wrong, and also really mean. In the long run, it’s not going to help anyone.
The first place to start with making these comments and this way of thinking stop is with you. If you catch yourself thinking bad things about yours or other people’s appearances, just remind yourself that everyone is beautiful in their own unique way. Or, if you refuse to think that, just think of something else.
I’m looking through my favorite magazine. I’m turning the pages when a full page ad shows up. A girl is taking up the entire thing. She’s wearing nothing but a bikini that leaves her boobs barely covered. She’s so skinny that her ribs are showing, and her arms look like sticks. I would call this girl extremely malnourished, but she’s part of the stereotype of beauty that society holds. This stereotype is formed by the media and negative people who have nothing better to do.
The media loves to show the stereotypical form of beauty. Wherever you go, billboards and magazines full of models can always be found. The women are tall, slim, and young. The men are muscular, hairless and can vary in age. People feel bad about themselves when they see that they don’t look like these pictures, but it’s impossible to compare yourself to a picture that isn’t even close to the original.
The photos are edited to make the models look as unrealistic as possible, even after the often unhealthy models are made over for hours. The original people and the end photos look vastly different. But people don’t think of that. They think, Why can’t I look like that?
Other people also contribute a lot to the shaming of certain body types. People are constantly putting each other down by calling them fat or ugly. For some it can just be forgotten, but for others, those comments can be hard to shake. A lot of people make these comments in order to feel better about themselves. That way of thinking is also wrong, and also really mean. In the long run, it’s not going to help anyone.
The first place to start with making these comments and this way of thinking stop is with you. If you catch yourself thinking bad things about yours or other people’s appearances, just remind yourself that everyone is beautiful in their own unique way. Or, if you refuse to think that, just think of something else.
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