by Jeff Cline
Continuing this weeks discussion questions and one of my fellow bloggers i have decided to comment and write more about body image and the toll it takes on people. I found this article by Yale Daily News. It is an article discussing the conversations between a panel of professors, sexual educators, and the cheif of Health at Yale University. This article talks about how men and women are categorized based on how we are taught. We are taught that men have bodies that do things and that women are displayed. Women are looked at as objects of display and used for the sexual desire of others while men are considered the machines that are expected to perform.
These images that are taught to everyone has caused women and men to feel the need to meet those requirements to be accepted. A woman who does not see herself as a sexual desire to other will more likely have problems with their bodily image. This is what leads to eating disorders and even weight gain. The article also talked about what has led to the images everyone expects. Movies and TV were labeled as the biggest influence on stereotypes we get for men and women. One of the professors stated that if they are going to put sex on TV then they need to make it "ugly and messy and funny" because that is what it really is. The images that TV puts out there has coused people to expect a perfect romance and everything to go as planned. People feel they need to look that way or do things a certain way to be accepted. The images on TV should not be condsidered the perfect image. Yale has students who are raising awareness of mental disorders caused by body image and are hoping to help people to see life how they live it and not how TV lives it.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/feb/07/panel-discusses-body-image-sex/
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