Thursday, November 6, 2008
Thin vs. Fit
Something that I have noticed before but have never really taken to heart or thought about thoroughly is the fact that models on magazine covers are more often thin instead of fit. Fit and healthy seem to go together, but the outstanding goal of the media seems to be to get women thin by any means, whether that makes us unhealthy or not. This article, from Pioneer Thinking, gives us not only tips on how to feel better about ourselves as women and as people, but it teaches how to protect ourselves from the judging and menacing eyes and words of the media. The media may try to tell us how to look, act, and feel, but that does not mean that we have to listen. Avoiding the media's portrayal of women is unavoidable because it is surrounding us all day every day. So, if we cannot avoid it, we must learn how to correctly interpret it and therefor react to it. Exercising regularly and eating healthy are good steps to making yourself feel and look 100%. Fight the urge to be thin, and instead get fit!
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I have always wondered this myself. Healthy does not necessarily mean thin, and most of the women on those covers have never seemed very healthy to me. I liked number seven “Take off your rose-colored glasses. Look at the other real bodies around you.” The fact that these bodies around us a real, and not fake like models is an intersecting point. They’re completely real. They’re bodies that haven’t gone under the knife, have eaten regular meals and are not subjected to airbrushing in photographs. I thought it was a little weird that beside this article about promoting a good body image is an ad for learning how someone “lost 47 pounds in 3 months with no diet!” That’s kind of sad.
I thought this was an awesome article. Thinking about to magazines...like Healthy, well its always a women in a bikini on the cover and usually you can see her ribs. This magazine is trying to promote healthy body and lifestyles and by portraying an unhealthy body on the cover is giving out the wrong idea. I agree we need to try and not let the media affect us, but its hard. I mean look at all the celebs it has affected.
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