Argumentative Essay On Body Image

Selena Calvillo
Professor Pocklington
November 12, 2014

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Who’s the skinniest of them all? Have you ever looked in a mirror and didn’t like what you see? The person staring right back at you is yourself. You begin to analyze your body by picking out the flaws you see and describe the negative aspects of yourself out-loud. All the images that run through your mind are people you’ve seen in advertisements, commercials, movies, and televised events that have all affected your view of an “ideal” body image. As society continues to share the ideal body image for commercials and advertisements that people see, the more possibility it will cause men and women to feel that they themselves must look like this. Women were commonly known to have body image issues but as time passed men

Because of the knowledge we have: images are photo shopped, air brushed, plastic surgery etc. A classmate may also argue that these are aspects of media images on the body that we can ignore. “Ignore them,” said the classmate. “You know all the procedures they go through in order to look like that!” they say. I must admit, I can see why a classmate may argue that we can ignore these aspects but being aware of what is going on in our society is much better than simply acting like its not there. In the end, social media has affected men and women about how much they should stress they way look. But if we didn’t address the effects of the media we could possibly end up obese and not healthy, due to the fact that we didn’t have representation to look up at. Therefore saying that instead of believing that we must look like models and actors we can change the definition of the “ideal” body image to a more healthy, sustainable, realistic figure. In conclusion, we can either look at the negative aspects of the medias portrayal of ideal body image or benefit from it and modify it.
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