How Media portrays Women

            The Media's Portrayal of Women and its Detrimental Affects
             What is self esteem? Self-Esteem is appreciating one's own worth and a confidence and satisfaction in oneself. In women's lives they go through many changes within themselves. Having self-esteem and self-confidence is such an important part to a woman's life. I did this as my final project because I notice a lot of women not having a good self-esteem or self-confidence. It is what they should be looking forward too and what they should be thinking. I would like to think that I have a good self-esteem almost everyday of the week, but we all have our moments. The women who prompted me to do this topic are women whom also scare me. They walk around everyday thinking they have nothing to live for due to body image problems and disorders. These individuals view extremely thin women everyday in all types of media. Women portrayed on TV, magazines, and billboards are all super skinny models or actresses whom in reality are a marginal portion of our large population.. Most women in the world do not look like the women presented to us everyday in the media form. Many real life women get caught up in the media hype of "needing" to look like a model and will try anything they can to fit the mold of what, in their mind believes to be a attractive woman. Young girls have seen and heard this is the way they should try to look their entire life and stays with them through adolescence through adulthood. As these individuals progress in their lives their self-esteem and self-confidence drops. Their mentality is altered because they feel they are always being compared to women whom with they cannot compete with. Having high self-esteem and self-confidence should come first in a women's life, but society pushes it aside. I hate to see a woman walking around with no self-confidence and always comparing herself to the another girl who walked by and feeling as if she is infer...

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