beauty in the media

1. The main idea of this article is how the media influences the way that women perceive themselves and how they should view themselves.
2. In the media women are portrayed as young, tall, skinny and pretty. Women’s magazines say that if you are skinny enough you start to have it all, a great marriage, loving children and great sex. Advertisers believe that thin models sell more products.  Their goal is to make women feel sorry for themselves so that they can feel better when they buy a certain product.
3. Researchers generated a computer model of a Barbie doll because they wanted to show us that if a actual human has the same proportions her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and her back would be too weak to support her upper body weight and she would eventually die from malnutrition. 
4. I think that women in the media should be portrayed as the way that real women are.  Most of the time people that make the commercials think that the women are too fat or their skin isn't clear.  So they digitally enhance them.  So our view of a actual women has been eschewed so much hat we don't know what a real woman looks like anymore.  I say just have a normal everyday mother that just dropped off the kids at soccer practice to do the commercial.  She might not be the prettiest thing but at least its the truth.