Susan Bordo

In class we discussed Bordo and eating disorders. Bordo believes that culture plays a big role on what people, not just females, think of their physical image. And we discussed in class how media is a big factor of this issue. Advertisements always have thin women, and buff men in them, and we believe that it is only acceptable to be thin (TV shows and films do the same). Photoshop, also enhances this view. People look at these advertisements and try to look like these people, who don't even look like this, as they do in these advertisements, in reality. Thus media 'forces' people to workout and diet in such ways that eating disorders develop.