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Ethical Implications Of Teen Magazines

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Topic: Magazines marketed for teenagers send the wrong moral and ethical messages. Attention (Hook): Whether you're standing in line at a grocery store or at a gas station, magazines are being sold. While they may not effect you, teens and young children everywhere are receiving not so nice messages. Need (Problem): Main Point: How magazines send misconstructed info on body goals and what is “acceptable” or “pretty” Subpoint: Teen magazines flood girls with stylized pictures of society’s “ideal” beauty and what their bodies should look like or be able to achieve. How many people believe if you are at a certain height, weight or look that it is considered sexy or stylish. Making an idea or creating a goal that is impossible for many to reach. …show more content…

girls 6 to 12 years old have been on at least one diet, and that among normal-weight girls 50 percent to 70 percent consider themselves overweight. Many teens in magazines such as Teen Vogue, and Seventeen can frequently contain articles and pictures about how to look “slim” and “sexy” A study has found that many magazines readers are twice as likely to be able to have an unhealthy weight control due to such images and expulsion II. Main Point: Many teens try to mimic a model’s attire believing it would help them to fit into society or within a certain clique at school Subpoint: Girls come to a sense of being convinced that they require certain fashions to belong in a world that emphasizes materialism. An abounding set of magazines are filled with ways on how to get a boyfriend and what to wear to look sexy. The American Psychology Association describes it as "costuming for seduction" or dressing provocatively in order to get a guy’s attention to her or oneself. Young teens who do read articles in magazines believe to sink in the idea that they are only seen as sexual objects to men and have a need to dress a type of way. Sheila Gibbons states that teen magazines are bombarded with ads ands editorials stated the newest fashions and …show more content…

Viewing Model's also helps weaken a girl's self-esteem by making them think what they are not Teen girls can develop personal insecurities among themselves Satisfaction (Solution); A solution to the problem would to include more body types to within magazines and not have everything be photoshopped or women having plastic surgery to look better upon themselves. Have all bodies of all different shape and sizes to include a variety/inspiration among young teen girls to be proud of who they are. To also embrace one’s flaws to be shown as a great thing such as freckles, moles, love handles and wrinkles. Visualization (Implication): Just think about the future if the problem keeps persisting and one day you have a daughter. What if one day she comes home from school crying and coming up to you saying how she wants to anorexic in able to fit into society. They themselves believe that's the only way to look as great as a model or even a celebrity. How would you feel about then about magazines and the media sharing the idea to your daughter that she can’t be beautiful enough until she looks exactly like

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Moreover, Body Image, Media and Eating Disorders states that 30% of children are dissatisfied with their body image due to being overweight and 15% are dealing with obesity (Derene & Beresin, 2006). This demonstrates that the number of children watching television and the number of overweight, obese children are involving their selves more into the media rather than more crucial events. Correspondingly, the average model is 23% thinner compared to 25 years ago (Ravelli & Webber, 2012). Today’s media has an impacting effect on how women should appeal themselves to others in society. This guides them to behave a certain way and not truly be themselves.

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Dissatisfaction amongst today’s youth regarding their personal body image is increasingly common, warranting a necessary change in the norms and behaviours that are portrayed to Canadian youth. The necessary change that must be implemented moving forward is the portrayal of healthy and attainable body images through media. A 2012 ABC News article stated the average model weighs 23% less than the average woman (Lovett, 2012). Such an appalling statistic is something that must be tackled as we progress toward the future seeing as it showcases to the youth of today that anorexia and unhealthy body weight is seen as desirable or attractive. The relation between such a statistic and anorexia is clear.

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“47% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures.” Says Michael Levine(3). Society has a negative effect on body image. Naturally, Society’s image of a perfect body is unreal and unnatural. All of the expectations can cause eating disorders and mental disorders.

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“Many teenagers feel that the best way to gain social acceptance and avoid being ridiculed by their peers is to achieve society’s ideal body,” (“Introduction to Dieting”). By having such presumptions about their self-image, teenagers change the way they see themselves and in turn, cause problems for themselves. In an interview, forty-seven percent of girls wanted to lose weight because of media influences while only twenty-nine percent of them were overweight (“Introduction to Dieting”). By creating these unrealistic expectations, social media gives teens false hope about their body image, which reflects how the women in Brave New World see

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Many young adult novels portray body image as an important component to an individual’s ability to prosper. In Do I look Fat? Body Image in YA literature, Beth Younger argues that a teenage girl’s ability to attain status and power is directly linked to her physical appearance. According to Younger, the female body must achieve the “contemporary ultrathin standard of beauty” (Younger 3) in order to attain control, power, and responsibility. If this gaze of a female body is not met, that individual will be looked upon as irresponsible, especially in her sexuality, and will miss out on the “American Dream” (Younger 7).

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Introduction This report is about impacts Teenage Magazines have on teenagers. The report aims to raise awareness on the teenagers being affected negatively through teenage magazines and how they impact one’s consciousness of the body. Even though certain magazines influence teenagers positively, most react negatively. Teenage Magazine gives fashion tips and latest gossips on the famous celebrities and rumors. The 21st Century magazines have progressed to become less realistic and more harsh.

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So when people look and see that they don’t look like they’re favorite super-model it can put a downer on their self-confidence. This causes many girls feeling that they aren’t good enough in society, society won’t accept them because they aren’t perfect and they start to not like their body. When for many females they can’t lose as much weight as their friend can just because of their genes and how they were born. “The lack of connection between the real and ideal perception of their own body and firm willingness to modify their own body and shape so as to standardize them to social concept of thinness…” (Dixit 1), being focused on unrealistic expectations can cause women to lose themselves and change their attitude on how they view their body, and not for the better.

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For example, girls will style their hair to “become more attractive” (Berger 2014), or they will purchase ‘minimizer,’ ‘maximizer,’ ‘training,’ or ‘shaping’ bras, hoping that their breasts will conform to their idealized body image” (Berger 2014). This all appears to be harmless activities, yet when body image is only addressed outwardly and not psychologically, there can be an increase in poor and destructive behaviors. For instance, body image dissatisfaction can lead to poor self-esteem, which can create a cycle of increased body dissatisfaction, followed by decreasing self-esteem (Stapleton et al., 2017). Ultimately, a teenage girl can find herself in a cycle of “depression, eating disorders and obesity” (Stapleton et al., 2017). On study in 2012 revealed, “Two-thirds of U.S. high school girls are trying to lose weight, even though only one-fourth are actually overweight or obese” (Berger 2014).

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