Some interesting media issues posted by Jim Underwood, former Adjunct Instructor, Communication Department, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL. Many posts are by former students in his Introduction to Mass Communication class.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Should there be a US law against too thin models? There is now in Israel. Read the article and post your thoughts.
As someone who has personally dealt with this issue, I think that there should be regulations placed in the modeling industry. Nowadays, girls can begin eating disorders as early as 10 years old. As a society, we are very much influenced by the media whether we realize it or not. This is especially true within the young population. Young girls look up to celebrities and supermodels as a standard of beauty, and they proceed to aspire to be like them in every way possible. This leads to a negative self image and to dangerous eating habits. By using dangerously thin models, fashion companies are indirectly advocating a negative self image and eating disorders. If fashion companies were given a minimum BMI for the models that they use, positive role models could be more common in the modeling industry and hopefully there would be less of a desire to weigh a dangerously low weight.
As someone who has personally dealt with this issue, I think that there should be regulations placed in the modeling industry. Nowadays, girls can begin eating disorders as early as 10 years old. As a society, we are very much influenced by the media whether we realize it or not. This is especially true within the young population. Young girls look up to celebrities and supermodels as a standard of beauty, and they proceed to aspire to be like them in every way possible. This leads to a negative self image and to dangerous eating habits. By using dangerously thin models, fashion companies are indirectly advocating a negative self image and eating disorders. If fashion companies were given a minimum BMI for the models that they use, positive role models could be more common in the modeling industry and hopefully there would be less of a desire to weigh a dangerously low weight.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that mean that there would also have to be a law on being too fat??
ReplyDeleteExcellent point! Other comments????
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