The Importance Of Dehumanization Of Culture

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Naomi Campbell. That is who I knew I was going to be like when I grew up. All through my childhood people told me I favored Naomi Campbell from my bone structures to my skinny petite weight. Naomi Campbell was an extraordinary supermodel in the 1990’s and continued being the face of African Americans women. As I went into my teen years, I stopped growing and started gaining weight. I was not fat I just was not diminutive. I started having low self-esteem and forced my mother to start buying healthy foods and buying me gym memberships. Neither have those worked for me, doctor said I would remain around five foot three inches for the remainder of life and once you have thighs, it is hard to lose them.

What is dehumanization? It is making themself seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. Dehumanization, when the author of magazines published a smoking hot blue-eyed woman in a magazine and all eyes on her ass soon as you open it to the page, but the reader is thick with dark skin and brown eyes and feels she could never reach up to this model standards. She starts beating herself, calling herself ugly and finding the puzzles to the pieces. “Well this is why no one likes me or will accept me, because I am not five foot nine with blue eyes and a pair of C cup

In our media-driven culture, our views of what women and men should look like are shaped by these unreal images. Older men and women, or people with disabilities, or disfigurements are rarely if ever depicted in these types of publications” (Ballaro 1) Ballaro is saying that what people or dehumanizing themselves for are pretty much fake, plastic surgery airbrush and can not forget the contouring the artist are doing before the flash. Everything is so unreal and natural people are more of the realistic type of humans out there. For example Kim Kardashian has fake everything, the camera and new technology enhances her beauty plus million-dollar plastic surgery done to here. The reader feels as that if she needs to look like to be loved and cherished and spoiled, so she goes back to beating herself up.

Another reason body image should not be depicted in print media they way that it is because the disorder that it comes with. People suffer from food disorders and body disorders. As seen in attachment one you have three beautiful women modeling for Target in a Sports Illustrated Magazine, women want that look. They will go through the most just to come out five foot nine inches, 119 pounds. Young females will do anything to get that banging body, blue eyes,