I do not think that is acceptable for advertisements to be causing women to feel like this. Forty percent of newly identified cases of anorexia are in girls fifteen to nineteen year olds. Twenty billion is spent on beauty advertisements in the US annually, that’s a lot of money to be spent making women women feel worse about themselves. Eighty percent of women feel worse about themselves after seeing a beauty ad. Seven million girls and women under 25 suffer from eating disorders, because of women seeing ads of how they should be. In the top picture she has no flaws, but she was changed completely to be the ideal for the company. In this advertisement it shows how photoshopped this female model is. By the time they are 17, these girls have seen 250,000 TV commercials telling them they should be a decorative object, sex object, or a size they can never achieve. Why do you think that these girls feel this way? Advertisements of women being ‘perfect’ influence adolescence. Today 42% of girls in grades 1-3 want to be thinner, 51% of 9-10 year old girls feel better about themselves when they are dieting, 53% of 13 year old girls are unhappy with their bodies and by the time they are 17, 78% of them will be. Young children today are so worried about how they look and how they dress. Start with youtube video called Onslaught by Dove.
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