Josephine Camacho
Assignment: Find another example of a construction of reality in the media (ex. news article, magazine, TV show, etc). Explain how media is constructed in the piece. Explain your reaction to this piece (1-2 paragraphs, with the picture/link/item in question).
I chose Victoria’s secret models because media portrays them as perfect with perfect hair, perfect bodies and a perfect face. Media creates one type of person as beautiful. The typical standard of being beautiful by society is to have long hair , tall, nice bodies with plenty make up on. That’s the new stereotype for beauty. You never see a fat model or a plain looking model. The question is, is this really how society sees’s how the average person looks? Yes because not everyone can wear the same skimpy clothes or swimsuits as them so in reaction to this teens are becoming anorexic and vomiting out everything they just ate , covering their face with makeup and wearing tight clothes to try to resemble the “in” look or the look that is said to be fashionable which is not right.
In my opinion this is not true everyone has something beautiful about them that is different. It is not fair to say in order to be beautiful you have to be skinny with long hair and a clean pretty face because that’s not true. That can also cause problems with society. I think they should have swimsuit models that are fat and have regular fat models to so that maybe it can change the ways of what society thinks.
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