The essay by Susan Bordo, “Never Just Pictures” really impacted me and gave me a message to which I am exposed everyday by the media. According to the media anorexic is the new look.
To me this essay is saying the media has been giving us the perfect, ideal, and beautiful body that these models have, basically saying that this is the new look. In reality no one has the perfect body. It’s true that ads feature anorexic looking models and when I get a glimpse of these images I feel insecure about my own body. The author is telling us that media is very powerful and that it speaks to us not just about how to be beautiful and desirable but how to get control of our lives. It really stuns me that people want a wasted and models that look like junkies. If we have images that everyone is going to want to look the same and we will disappear slowly literally because of how skinny one gets.
I can relate to what the author is saying because I had problems with my image. For a while all I ate were energy bars and nothing else but sometimes I couldn’t help it and I would just eat anything. I would even try and throw it all up to get all that grease out. The media pushes us to do these types of things. They don’t make us do it but sometimes we are just influenced by what we see.
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