The Media's Effect On Women

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Today in our society woman are forced to live up to a certain level of standards. When a woman goes out anywhere into the public, they are forced to make sure their appearance is up to certain acceptable standards for our society.”Fat is a social disease,and fat is a feminist issue”(Orbach 449).What Orbach is trying to elaborate on being fat is a social disease and a feminist issue,because society has decided for us that is not okay for a woman to be curvey or a plus side. Since women are being forced to live up to a certain standard, it does not help that the media puts women into gender roles. “The relegation of women to the social roles of wife and mother has several significant consequences that contribute to the problem of fat” (Orbach

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