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“One of the things I advocate is that we should be teaching media
literacy in the schools,” said Jean Kilbourne. “Kids should be learning
early on that these images are not real. Media literacy would be a kind
of public health approach.” (Source)
“These
unrealistic images of women, who are often airbrushed or partially
computer generated, have a detrimental impact on women and how they feel
about themselves.” (Source)
"Just like we have those
warnings on cigarette packs, it would be nice to put a little warning on
Seventeen magazine," researcher Laurie Mintz says. " 'Warning: Viewing
these images is bad for your body esteem.' " (Winnipeg Free Press,
04/02/07)
"The images are impossible for most females to achieve, but they sell
products and make girls feel negatively about their own looks.
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that the
more adolescent and pre-adolescent girls read fashion magazines, the
more likely they were to diet and to feel unhappy about their bodies.
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Boston College found that
while African-American girls ignored images of skinny white female
bodies on television and elsewhere, they were concerned about their
inability to match white standards of hair and skin color." (Source)
"....unrealistically thin young women are often used in advertisements
for everything from soft drinks to cars..... previous research has
already shown that such advertising contributes to negative body images
among young girls and women." (Source)
Males impacted: ""Action figures present subtle messages of unrealistic
role models of well-sculpted, heavily muscled, 'perfect' bodies that
little boys see as their role models." Sondra Kronberg, director and
co-founder of Eating Disorder Associates Treatment & Referral Centers (source)
"Body dissatisfaction can produce extreme body-shaping behaviors, such
as eating disorders. Women and girls can't help being exposed to
ultra-thin models in advertising whose body size is unrealistic and
unhealthy. There is good evidence already that exposure to these
unhealthy
models leads a large proportion of women to feel dissatisfied with their
own bodies." Helga Dittmar, University of Sussex researcher
According to statistics posted by the National Institute on Media and
the Family, by age 13, some 53 percent of American girls are unhappy
with their bodies; that figure grows to 78 percent by the time girls
reach 17. In another study on fifth graders, 10-year-old girls and boys
told
researchers they were dissatisfied with their own bodies after watching
a music video by Britney Spears or a clip from the TV show Friends. And
adolescent girls who viewed commercials depicting unrealistically thin
models felt "less confident, more angry, and more dissatisfied with
their weight and appearance."
Source:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2004/006/6.18.html
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