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Media Consumption And Eating Disorders In The 1950's

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Analyzing this two advertisements both from a very popular cereal the 1950’s, we see in the first picture that is not only prompting the cereal but also selling the idea that you need to stay in shape and in to the appealing of men, the sooner you take care of that body the better, how this interaction mother and daughter is based on body shaming. The second images it’s about body shaming now other people and we can see by her pose that she demonstrates this superiority and elegances that the other two ladies are clearly jealous about. The cereal will give you this magical power of authority over others because of your body shape. We see the slogans using this persuasive and appealing to the minds of the young and wife house style and strict stereotype. They also said that a skin that it was too dark was not pretty, using a skin- lighting cream was the best thing you could do to your face, …show more content…

society.” (Harrison, "The Relationship between Media Consumption and Eating Disorders"). They are trying to make us feel like we are not part of this aesthetic model so we force ourselves to somehow look like a doll so that we can fit into society, “media trends may indeed be linked to the idealization of thinness and, thus, to the development of eating disorders in media consumers” (Harrison, "The Relationship between Media Consumption and Eating Disorders"). Magazines, television, newspaper always try to find way to get into young and adult mind to idolize this types of bodies and their products become more popular to reach this stereotypes. In addition on the article by Chris York “Eating Disorders: How Social Media Helps Spread Anorexia And Bulimia In Young People” states that “Whilst the portrayal of "ideal" body types in western media has long been recognized as a factor in propagating eating disorders”

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