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0 (FGCU) Kristina Dwyer
Growing up in a world that idolizes beauty, worships a size zero, and floods your television screen with images of perfection, it is hard to believe anything else is acceptable. It’s these unattainable demands however that not only hurt young girls images of themselves, but also impact an ideal in the heads of girls at such a young age. Due to this, they now have a goal, a reference point the only thing left is for them to start walking towards it. It’s not surprising that 4 out of 10 women are unhappy with how they look, it’s even less surprising that 1 in every 25 women suffers from Anorexia Nervosa. It’s sickening to think that this is the world our children will have to grow up in and the affects are undeniable, I’ve seen girls as young as four playing with they’re stomach in the mirror and crying to their mom that they were “fat.” What is our society focusing on? What ever happened to American girl dolls, wanting a toy microscope, and playing outside? Today kids are brought up completely differently, given a cell phone at six, getting their nails done at ten and shopping at Hollister by 12. It’s like the next generation is factory made, already preprogrammed and ready to go. Is this what we wanted? I think we’re all becoming hypocrites, we say we believe in the Christian values, the American dream and social norms. However today I can’t even begin to understand what Christian would practice changing every part of your body to replace it by plastic surgery. Or when the American Dream was no longer about pride and making something of yourself in the country but rather about being rich, and then richer then your neighbors. The messages we send out silently, verse’s what we are preaching to our children to do are contradicting one another incredibly. Our society has become a bad influence on the innocent still here, and almost an impossible place for those who still stand for what they believe in to fight back.
21. March 2009 at 22:57
I love the way you’ve worded everything in this post. I completely understand your point. I’m a part of the younger generation being 21 in 2009 it’s much different than it used to be years ago. I am a female and it’s sad to admit but I too was steamrolled into believing that I was fat at a very young age. I’ve never been medically obese, maybe under-weight even. I’ve always been skinny/athletic and grateful for it. I’ve never really had a eating disorder either but definitely paticular about what I eat and how much of it. Sometimes seeing the things that you have described in your post makes me feel as though I don’t want to have children because I don’t want them to endure all the things that you have listed. Hopefully things will turn around, but really that’s up to the parents if you think about it.
22. March 2009 at 00:18
I think there is hope for the next generation but only if they are not ignorant. I think our generation and the next is growing up in a time where all we want is something to confide it, to believe in, to have faith in. We are easily swayed because of how unstable everything else is, and it’s this setup that’s setting us up to fail. We need to become educated,and give it our all.