Body Image: Part 3

Mass Communication is a huge field of study and is only getting bigger. Mass Communication is used in everyday life if you realize it or not. One of the things seen daily is advertisements weather they are on billboards, in magazines, on cars, or just on a flyer they are being seen and used. Something that is becoming a bigger issue in advertising is body image. Body image is how people view themselves and others on a daily basis; it has to do a lot with judging others and even yourself. It is found that this is a bigger problem towards teenagers and younger girls who are still looking for role models and trying to discover what people want you to look like in high school and what is attractive.
Judging others on the way they look is socially unacceptable. To be able to tell someone that they are too big, not pretty enough, or not fit is just cruel and unnecessary. This is happening more often in magazines because they are looking for and hiring tiny, fit little models and when younger girls read through these magazines they are thinking that this is the way they are supposed to look and think that is what people are looking for maybe even just to be popular and be able to fit in. Recently there was an issue at the University of South Dakota where the cheerleaders there were told that a few of the girls on the team didn’t look the best in their uniform. This was very cruel to be said because what exactly determines whether or not someone looks good in the uniform given to them. What if an individual had a weight problem that maybe ran in their family, and she couldn’t help the way she looked in her uniform. This really was a huge deal to the team, it was also upsetting because they did feel as if they were being judged and now they are always going to be thinking that they don’t look good enough which is an awful feeling.
Body image is a big issue right now and hopefully in the future it will become a smaller one.