Seven Standards The Beauty Industry Has Been Selling For DecadesIn the Huffington Post article by Amanda Scherker she list out seven of the main ways in which women need to change their natural physical appearance to be considered 'beautiful' or 'attractive'. The advertisements they reference and show pictures to are not current ads distributed in the media in 2015, yet they still have an eerie similarity to the standards being sold through magazines and advertisements today. The ad to the right is a prime example of how media influences women especially on how they should look. It is however horrific to tell a woman that her shape doesn't fit the standard of what a "girl" should look like. And plainly the main image is of a pear, which is a fruit, which is therefor not the shape of a girl, but that of a pear. Women are not fruit and they are not objects so it does no good to anyones self image to be compared to a food.
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What Sells?Models and movie starts are super skinny because that is what producers and advertisers believe will sell. The fashion and advertising industry has often used the excuse that thinness is what sells. A study done by Phillippa Diedrichs and Christina Lee found however that consumers were equally as likely to buy a product weather the model was skinny or a healthy average weight.
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