Women Beauty Standards in Media

        

Women Beauty Standards in Media 

        When I was a child, I saw a celebrity entertainment news anchor called the singer Beyonce fat. It was the early 2000s, and many women who were quite average in size was seen as fat. Diet culture rules this era, and you can see it creeping back with some commercial advertisements. From yogurt ads, weight loss shows to fitted clothing many women did not fit the skinny America’s Next Top Model figure. It was all placed to sell women a body that is manufactured by editors on a super model’s body. 

            When women are placed with clear definitions of femininity, they are seeing themselves as less than a woman. They are seen as masculine, and it is worse for black women. Like Beyonce, many black women are placed adjacent to men. Black women are not seen as desirable and major woman athletes like Serena Williams are constantly told that they look manly. Now, she is doing ads for GLP-1 medications. Even non-black women with racially ambiguous body types are viewed as masculine. This goes to show you that the harsh beauty standards are still prevalent today. 

         For women news anchors, there is a standard. I hardly see a diverse body type in women anchors, but for men I see all body types and there is no discrimination for the men. Men get to be there as themselves. There is a huge gap of acceptability with men and women standards of beauty. Until we acknowledge the problem and start changing, we will continue to be in this cycle of beauty standard. More and more women we aging as a problem and will do many measures to prevent that. Often time resulting in complications and complaints from themselves. I think that there is a beauty of all women and there should not be this ideal type that women should strive for. we have merged into a communicative world, and everyone has their own body and mind for a reason. We can’t lose sight of the diversity in women for who they are.