Media vs. Body by Brian Jones

Growing up I would always look to those on TV or in the Movies as to what is latest style and growing up I always had to have what was in. The point I am trying to make is that media controls so much about the way we feel we should look, whether it is our dress or it is the way our body should look. We are constantly seeing "perfect" body images on TV shows or in the Movies or on the Internet, or even at any store you go to, you can look at a Magazine and see a person with a so called perfect body.

I, like anyone, like to look good, dress nice, and feel fit. In my opinion however, I do not believe that we should have to portray ourselves as all the Hollywood Stars to be excepted into today society. There are tons of people in the world and I find it ridiculous to only say that a certain group are attractive or perfect.

When you take into account what the media is asking, or expecting people to become, it is for the most part, unrealistic. Take the Dove campaign for instance, they took a completely normal looking person, photo shopped her, stretched her face, and made her something that she wasn't at all so that she could be beautiful to the "world." Take for instance a young girl playing with a Barbie Doll. Growing up she feels that she has to look like a Barbie, blonde hair, body structure. Then all she sees on Magazines and on the TV are these body looking people and she feels unhappy with herself when she doesn't look like that, when in reality, a very few percentage of people actually do.

I know that God created everyone with unique characteristics and our purpose is not to come her to look exactly like one another and to become what the world wants us to be, but to become like Him. Yes, it is important to be healthy and to keep our bodies strong and fit, but in no way do we need to harm our bodies to be something the media tells us to be.