Реферат: STUTTERING Essay Research Paper American Women Fading

real woman. She would have a large chest and hips, yet her waist would be so

tiny that she would not be able to stand. This is yet another example of how

young girls are taught that beauty is thinness.

Even women who are in the right weight bracket want worry about losing just 5

more pounds. Women have a view that they can never be thin enough. It is

impossible for women to achieve their ideal weight because as they lose weight

they continue to drive to be thinner. Vivan Meehan, the founder and president of

National Association of Anorexia and Associated Disorders (ANAD), explains how

perfection is a factor of eating disorders. Meehan says, ?We are in a society

that suggests we must be perfect in everything and feel that we must somehow

live up to these unrealistic standards? (23).

American society gives women a distorted view on beauty. Women feel to be

beautiful they must be underweight. The media portrays the stars in movies and

television shows as being malnourished, yet beautiful. Models and actresses are

role models to women and many women want to lose weight to look like them. This

causes a rise in eating disorders. Women?s ideal weight keeps getting less and

less. No matter how much women lose, they want to be thinner. They do not know

when to stop. Their bodies just deteriorate until they can no longer stay alive.

Many women will do anything just to be thin and feel beautiful, even if it

results in death.

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