Media Meditation # 4I feel the media has the ability to warp and influence the minds of women through music, television and advertisements. These various media have the ability to distort a woman’s concept of beauty and "reality construction" through images of “perfection” in the many media outlets. If you actually take a moment and think how many times a day you are exposed to the media, consciously and subconsciously, it is a lot more then you realize. Consciously we watch movies and flip through pages of a magazine. Subconsciously, our limbic brain analyzes images of "Beautiful people" and implants into our minds guidelines of what we should look like. Celebrities, unlike average "plain folks" cannot afford to show any imperfections because interestingly enough the media will criticize them for it. Since celebrities are influenced and pressured by the media to be thin, average women, who base their image on the stars, will follow. However, the "big lie" is that these women in magazines do not have perfect bodies. Thanks to programs like Adobe Photoshop an editor can go in and remove excess fat from a leg, enlarge the model’s eyes or make their lips fuller. Their photographs have been digitally enhanced and altered to create the illusion of perfection rather than an actual person. Even though these pictures are fake and far from a true representation of the human body, women will try anything to achieve this unattainable appearance in any way possible. Some women might be completely comfortable with their bodies, but the advertisements they view have the ability to make them self-conscious. When one is constantly surrounded by these negative messages and images it damages a woman’s self-worth and esteem. According to Media and Society, written by David Croteau and William Hoyness "The most visible ad is the cover of the magazine. The standard image of the ideal woman on the cover suggests that purchase of the magazine will provide clues to how and what to buy in order to become the ideal w

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