Soceity and woman

The effects of society and media on overweight woman



Women are subjected to a culture and society that glorifies beauty and thinness as the accepted, perfect, ideal image. Image and physical appearance are the main interesting subjects in today’s society and what people see first in a person. Beauty and thinness are what every woman wants in order to have a feeling of acceptance, self confidence, and satisfaction. All these components create the well being of a person, and the harmony between her body and soul. Unfortunately there are some women who do not have enough physical attributes to fit that “perfect” image and who face obesity. Due to the social worship of thinness and the ignorance that most people have about the effects of being overweight, being fat is the target of a great amount of discrimination.The effects of the rejection of overweight women in society leads them to a feeling of non-acceptance and isolation, depression and eating disorders, a lack of self-...