Susan Bordo

Susan Bordo talked about the effect of culture on women’s eating behavior in our society. As we talked in class, women in today’s society create an imaginary ideal body in their own minds and try so hard to achieve this unachievable goal. And that’s mostly because they are influenced by different things that they are surrounded with such as society, commercials, and etc. For example, Barbie and Disney characters are all thin. And this shows how girls from the early ages are being taught that being “thin” like those characters is the ideal body. Unfortunately, many women hate their bodies, so they try to be “slim” by going on a diet and losing weight. However, as Bordo said this may cause eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia.