Bordo

Susan Bordo Talks about how the body is seen as separate from the mind/soul and the body is inferior. Somehow women sexistly ended up being attributed to the body while men are associated with the intellect. In that sense, men improve themselves by being smarter while women improve themselves with body image. Which is why they struggle to achieve an ideal body and end up with distorted images of themselves, leading to eating disorders.
This insecurity is often brandished to the public by exposing girls to altered images of women that are meant to be what is correct or attractive. It's not fair to do this because people have different body types and sometimes have health conditions that prevent them from ever achieving
"the look". Telling impressionable young girls that they have to be thin is dangerous.