Finally, it seems that the corporate media is undergoing major changes. No longer just ultra-thin women meet the very strict beauty standards before - or it's the real standard - one from
desirable from
The standard of women.
Women with real fat on their bodies [gasp!] are now appearing more and more on mainstream TVs and even glossy magazines. They not only appear, but are also seen as a model of beauty.
In 2016, the cover of Sports Illustrated featured a gorgeous model, Ashley Graham, who produced international news because the traditional media standard was over 70 pounds.
Graham will now work with Tyra Banks as a judge for the "The Next Top Model in America" group.
The popular HBO show "Girls" has made headlines in the past few years because it reflects the true cellulite of one of the show stars. The "Charming" magazine followed, displaying four stars on the cover, one of which was bold and fat, and her cellulite was purposefully exposed.
Cable TV, YouTube and other forms of alternative media distribution set a precedent for a decade ago. They allow us to see the real body in the video on a regular basis.
The corporate media itself is changing now. TV commercials, female weather forecasters, and even pop star actresses... it's happening. Women who are thinner than the Scarecrow are no longer prohibited from being represented as normal or even beautiful people.
How victorious - or what it saw. After all, for decades, feminists, parents and "plus size" activists have been opposed to the media's ultra-thin women as a measure of women's beauty, and the type of body required is even eligible to become a star.
They believe that this standard almost makes all women alive, even lean women, in the category of "too obese" and causes many girls and women to develop developmental and anorexia, bulimia and diets that cause extreme bites.
Companies like Dove have listened. The main media media are adapting to these needs. The basic principles of public discussion of "body image" and women's representation have changed. It will definitely make progress.
But there is something missing here. Something as big as an elephant in the room.
This is related to why so many women and girls first have a "body image" problem and why so many people suffer from eating disorders.
This is not just about beauty standards that are inflexible or unrealistic or even unhealthy.
It also deals with how to treat women's beauty. This is about how to depict a female body, regardless of its size, color and age.
Put it in feminist terminology: the problem is sexual objectification.
The sports Illustrated cover featuring the beautiful Ashley Graham may send messages to women who are thinner than the Scarecrow because their weight may also be sexual desire.
But this is a message from
Dear from
desire? Or something else?
Are photos of three women of different sizes coming from male audiences: respecting the boundaries of women, recognizing their self-ownership and complex humanity, and understanding women's understanding of sex only with women's choices to share with them?
Or does it send information to male viewers, that is, the complex human nature of the women who open them is actually not true or irrelevant? Does it convey information that women do not have meaningful sexual boundaries? Women don't choose to share their sexual desires with them, because - just watching - these three different models have many people who think it's the best job in the world of women - models - all to provide it to the camera and millions of anonymous men Audience, is there no standard?
Girls and women do not suffer from low self-esteem, body image complexes and eating dysfunction simply because their body types do not appear in the media.
This is part of the problem. But it is not the most important part. In fact, strict control of external beauty standards is actually only one aspect of real, deeper problems - a deeper problem is from
Disrespectful portrait from
Women portray women - even girls - as sexual objects.
Not every woman will agree that sexual identification of women is a form of disrespect. Some women believe that embracing this role is a way of claiming their femininity, and that the sexual attention they receive is not disrespectful.
I think what they enjoy is an increase in disrespect and disregard for openness.
For men who learn to make women objective, the prelude to "get some" looks a bit like respecting the behavior of others - smile, nod, pay attention, maybe some gentlemen courtship.
However, if those who attract attention see a woman as a sexual object and do not see a complex, inherently self-owned person, then their respect has no reality.
If you've read reports of women and girls about eating disorders, most refer to sexual abuse in the family, sexual objections related to ultra-thin beauty standards, and ultra-thin beauty standards that are over-affected. Media - after their low self-esteem.
Low self-esteem comes from being treated as intangible. It comes from being treated like a person's infinitely complex human being, not real or important.
It comes from representatives in the ubiquitous media, as if a person has no material and sexual boundaries, and important people have it. The kind of border that needs to be respected. It comes from an object that is considered to be used by someone else - whether or not the "object" is designated as "beautiful."
In response to the objectification of culture, the most important thing is that in the media, women and girls learn to be objective.
A girl's natural perception of her, she is born like a young child, from an important life theme to a person. from
experience from
Her body, who from
experience from
World - the object of being entertained by others.
She still needs a theme, a real, infinitely complex person, but her self-awareness is shaped by the treatment she receives and the cultural expressions of those who look like her.
She began to conceive herself from the perspective of the image. The image presented by the media. The images of other people she knows [they are also trained by the media] see when they look at her.
You can say that there will be a problem of "poor body image".
However, a person naturally does not think about his body mainly from the perspective of "image". Her views on her body are natural - before self-opposition - more senses.
This natural self-concept includes her visual understanding of her body from the outside, but - before self-objectification is internalized - her inner experience of her body is not separated from her visual image.
If we don't object to ourselves, we naturally associate our visual impressions with our inner experience.
When we have this natural perception of ourselves, we do not define ourselves based on the "body image." We don't look at our bodies from an external perspective, just as we are another person who looks at our bodies.
Not a selfish person does not care about her appearance. vice versa. When we feel self-owned, we care about our appearance because we are proud of ourselves in a healthy way.
Some people in the "Body Enthusiasm" campaign have said that the appearance of women in the media has been overemphasized, and that women's qualities should be valued in addition to appearance.
I think they are intuitively opposed to the media. from
objective from
Woman's appearance
The appearance is really important - because we are very important. Our appearance is part of our whole.
It is the inner separation of the body and the self - self-objectification - needs to be repaired.
It is the sexual objectification of women and girls who need to change in society.
When we own ourselves, we love our bodies without having to reflect on whether we love our bodies.
We like to live, we like to be ourselves, we like to be in a stunning human female body, because it is alive and amazing, it gives us life.
We are born to be self-owned - before our relationship with our body is guaranteed by violence and subconscious through social and media, the female body does not represent the human self. Instead, the female body is conceived and appears to be publicly available until it is privately declared by a person other than the human self in the female body.
In this process, the natural self-love we have born is wounded or destroyed.
It seems that it has won the battle against inflexible ultra-thin beauty standards, or at least the victory is coming. However, the question behind the beauty standards, why it is so unfair, and why it first exists, is sexual objectification and disrespect for women. It all starts with objectification.
It's time to name the "invisible" elephant in the room.
The problem of being identified as a "poor body image" for women and girls will continue until we launch another campaign that effectively challenges the objectification of women and girls.
We have made some progress. Let us continue to change.
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