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This 3 page paper discusses the impact of the media on American culture, with respect to body image and acceptance of violence. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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own culture. It is the process by which children learn how to fit into their society, but learning its values, laws and expectations. For purposes of this discussion, lets take
the impact of the entertainment industry on the cultural expectations of appearance, especially where women are concerned, as well as its impact on the cultural acceptance of violence. Both subjects
have received a lot of attention, but they are still worth discussing. Women in the entertainment media are, with a few glaring exceptions, all young, beautiful, and very thin. The
movie and TV audience has grown used to these very slender women, but now, with the popularity of shows like Project Runway, a new woman has entered the discussion: the
professional model. Models are not merely slender, they are stick-thin, unhealthily so. Recently Ralph Lauren fired a model for being "too fat"; she wore a size 4 and is 510"
and 120 pounds (Size 4 model fired for being too fat, 2009). Unretouched photos of her show a lovely young woman with a beautiful body and womanly curves; not the
stick-thin asexual models that many designers seem to prefer. (There could be a whole other paper here about gay designers and their preference for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.)
Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that in order to be popular, successful and make good money, one has to be thin.
It also says that nothing else is as important as appearance; intelligence, ability, drive, loyalty, kindness, consideration-all those things that are desirable both in an employee and just as basic
human qualities-count for less than ones weight. This intense preoccupation with appearance has had serious consequences for Americans, in particular young teenage girls. Teenagers, despite their air of sophistication and
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