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This 3 page paper sums up how the media can impact the way we perceive our bodies. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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on our body image. Whether we are fat, thin, or just right, we typically measure ourselves against the societal definition of normality. For a fat guy living in
a thin-defined world this constant societal input on what we are supposed to look like can result in an increasingly poor self concept and even more concerning adverse psychological impacts.
On the other hand, however, this impact can have a more positive outcome. Whatever the outcome, there is a cause and an effect.
Many of our actions, from the foods we eat, to the way we dress, to the way we perceive our bodies, and indeed to the way we perceive
our own sexuality can be contended to be directly influenced by input from the outside world. As might be expected, the media plays a particularly weighty influence on our
lives in regard to the way we measure up our own bodies. Our exposure to media is almost constant. When we arent watching television, we are reading magazines,
listening to the radio, or surfing the Internet. All the time we are subjecting ourselves to a constant barrage of images and concepts that make it clear that the
skinny people of the world are the beautiful people and the heavier people are the dregs of society. While the more socially stable individual would likely not let such
messages impact them too adversely, someone that is more psychologically sensitive might become withdrawn or even more severely impacted.
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