Describe the ways body dissatisfaction takes shape for men and women. What demographic group is most likely to experience concern about body weight? What eating disorders are associated with body weight, what are the health risks of these, and in what
part of the world are these most common? What does Susan Bordo mean when she says these disorders are a “crystallization of culture”?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. Women especially are taught to see their bodies as in endless need of perfection and improvement. From a young age, through compulsive dieting and exercise, and exposure to difficult-to-achieve beauty standards, women are taught that they must strive for an idealized body. Men also are increasingly experiencing body dysmorphia in the form of the Adonis complex, which is an obsession with muscle growth.
2. Middle-class white women are the most likely group to experience concerns about body weight.
3. Bulimia and anorexia are both eating disorders, most common among women, that are associated with concern about body weight. They are serious problems that often lead to hospitalization and can threaten a girl’s life. They are most common in the United States.
4. Susan Bordo argued that these are not “deviant” behaviors but are a crystallization of cultural norms, taken to their logical and dangerous conclusion.
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