"Never Just Pictures" Said Something

"Never Just Pictures" by Susan Bordo speaks and points out that we as a whole are exposed to a single concrete image of beauty. This is a very negative reality but it made me come to think about how I can disregard what society says beauty is. Today people go to high extremes and desperate measures to get the image society presents but Susan Bodo shows how we are hurting our bodies rather than "improving them."

Susan Bordo express how pictures in the magazines don't stay as pictures in the magzines. For example, the idea that being overweight is out of the norm, if your not small and skinny there's something wrong. The shocking truth about what body image in the media has done to us is a shame. What is it that they've done for us? Sadly it's done absoultely nothing. The importance of this essay is for each individual to ignore the way that companies impose us look. We as unique women and men are told to change ourselves, perhaps it's companies that need to do the changing. I feel that Susan Bordo's example of the Olympic's and how the women look like young girls is a perfect example of how we as a society have accepted the abuse of imagery. Why do the gymnast look small? How is there real health? These are questions that I can't specify but I'm sure gymnast to this day are forced to be a certain weight and size to maintain the body image that is put on us.

What is most absurd is the idea that eating disoreders in America have yet to go down and still massive producers have done nothing to control it. "Never Just Pictures" demonstrates the harms of images, we as knowledgeable persons have endured. What was most important to me about reading this essay is that though there are images of what were "supposed to look like" don't let the images shape you into something your not.