women do obsess over their bodies more than men do. Women are with them, and “less satisfied permitted less latitude with them by themselves, by men, and by the (Bordo 40). For culture” example, conducted a poll that included 33,000 women. 75% of the women believed Glamour that they were too fat. However, according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance charts, 30% of the women were under the standards set by the charts and 25% of the women weighed more than the standards. Like the women that were included in the poll, anorexics have a of “distorted” view their body, although it is much more extreme (Bordo 40). When it comes to being sexually attractive, men can still be considered appealing if they have some body fat, but because of the ideas that are broadcasted by our culture women sexually appealing if they have the aren’t don’t right type of body. Over the past ten years, commercials have shown women getting skinnier and skinnier. Being extremely thin used to be what was expected just for the women that were models in the high fashion industry, but this image is now being broadcasted to high school and college age women. An objection to the argument that cultural ideals of beauty are reflected in anorexia nervosa can be found by looking at pro-ana websites. These websites are pro-anorexia and reject the dominant ideal of beauty in they promote a new ideal of today’s society. Instead, “extreme To promote their new ideal of beauty, the websites have thinness” (Richardson 120). (Richardson are additionally included on some of “thinspiration” pictures 122). “Bone pictures” the websites; these pictures are as the holy grail of (Richardson 123). “revered perfection” pictures that show overweight women, are also found on these sites “Reverse-triggers”, (Richardson 123). In response to this objection, I claim that by these websites rejecting the main ideals of beauty in society, they ultimately end up re-establishing the norms of beauty. today’s The websites that the body is a constantly changing project. Furthermore, the didn’t deny
women do obsess over their bodies more than men do. Women are “less satisfied with them, and permitted less latitude with them by themselves, by men, and by the culture” (Bordo 40). For example, Glamour conducted a poll that included 33,000 women. 75% of the women believed that they were too fat. However, according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance charts, 30% of the women were under the standards set by the charts and 25% of the women weighed more than the standards. Like the women that were included in the poll, anorexics have a “distorted” view of their body, although it is much more extreme (Bordo 40). When it comes to being sexually attractive, men can still be considered appealing if they have some body fat, but because of the ideas that are broadcasted by our culture women aren’t sexually appealing if they don’t have the right type of body. Over the past ten years, commercials have shown women getting skinnier and skinnier. Being extremely thin used to be what was expected just for the women that were models in the high fashion industry, but this image is now being broadcasted to high school and college age women. An objection to the argument that cultural ideals of beauty are reflected in anorexia nervosa can be found by looking at pro-ana websites. These websites are pro-anorexia and reject the dominant ideal of beauty in today’s society. Instead, they promote a new ideal of “extreme thinness” (Richardson 120). To promote their new ideal of beauty, the websites have “thinspiration” pictures (Richardson 122). “Bone pictures” are additionally included on some of the websites; these pictures are “revered as the holy grail of perfection” (Richardson 123). “Reverse-triggers”, pictures that show overweight women, are also found on these sites (Richardson 123). In response to this objection, I claim that by these websites rejecting the main ideals of beauty in today’s society, they ultimately end up re-establishing the norms of beauty. The websites didn’t deny that the body is a constantly changing project. Furthermore, the