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Essay / Wanted: Positive Body Images - 1912
When you walk down the hallway of a middle school, high school or college, dorm room or locker room, it is not uncommon to hearing a young woman say something bad about her body. or another girl's body. Negative peer comments tend to have a deeper impact than just hurting a child's feelings, as they lead to a decrease in self-esteem or self-confidence and a possible increase in dieting, exercise or eating disorders. Young girls need to be educated about positive body images from an early age, in order to avoid these repercussions and the extreme consequences of suicide, as demonstrated by Marge Piercy's 1973 "Barbie Doll." time that passes or the era in which the world finds itself. Indeed, young women remain affected by negative body images that must be truncated at a young age before the negativity has a chance to resonate in their impressionable minds. Since young girls are raised with these body expectations that are sometimes unreasonable, expectations sometimes arise from other peers, causing name-calling and negative comments, leading to devastating consequences. In Piercy's poem, she talks about girls growing up with their traditional toys like dolls and lipsticks. (643) At first, Barbie seems like a harmless toy that girls have been playing with for 52 years (Gelder, 116), but it is conceivable that the doll is the source of the problem because Barbie tends to remain atypical compared to to the average stature of the human body. Casey Tallent and Dr. Jan Deeds work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Women's Center in the Gender Studies segment. This pair notably organizes a workshop that they run in schools from middle school onwards. They proportion Barbie to her real appearance. Actually... middle of paper ... considerably under weight, and they set a terrible example. The Report Newsmagazine October 8, 2001. General OneFile. Web February 8, 2011. Maxfield, Christine. “Love of the body.” Women's Health March 2009: 24. General OneFile. Internet. February 10, 2011.Park, Jane Shin. “Thin ice.” » Teen Vogue September 2009: 166. General OneFile. Internet. February 8, 2011. Piercy, Marge. "Barbie doll." Literature and the writing process. Boston: Longman, 2011. 643 Print.Traister, Aaron. “Love your whole body (hey, he loves his): When men look in the mirror, they flex and wink. Women, on the other hand, mutter out loud about last night's carbs. Aaron Traister has an urgent call: relax! To the guy at the other sink, you're a real baby. Red Book November 2010: 102+. General OneFile. Internet. February 7, 2011. Van Gelder, Lindsy. “A Barbie: World.” Allure February 2009: 116. General OneFile. Internet. February 9. 2011.