Discuss the role the media has played regarding women and beauty. Give two specific examples from your own life experiences.
What will be an ideal response?
Correct answers vary but can include a discussion of reflexivity, which creates a heightened awareness of the body. We know the risks and care about fitness and health but engage in risky behaviors anyway. Reflexivity often leads to dissatisfaction with the body, especially because of the influence of peers and the media. We live in what might be called an "appearance culture"; that is, one in which appearance is of central importance to peers and in the media. That culture includes ideas about what makes an appearance "attractive," and such ideas can negatively affect people's feelings about their own appearance. This is particularly true for adolescents, especially young women. Men and women often feel pressure to have bodies that fit with stereotypes of gender. Students can discuss Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth. Wolf argues that the media present the majority of people with an unattainable standard of beauty. The "objectifying gaze," rooted in patriarchal and Eurocentric ideals of beauty and attractiveness and expressed through media, includes a narrow standard for beauty and desirability.
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