appropriate to replace her with the boy next door.
             Many studies have been conducted to show the media's effect on our society, especially on its children. A study by Paul Rosenkrantz, mentioned in the 1996 book, Am I Thin Enough Yet? noted that "(the) body... often frames our perceptions of what it means to be feminine and masculine [Hesse-Biber, 17]." Garfinkle, Schwartz, and Thompson (1996) tracked the proportions of Playboy centerfolds in a twenty-year study, completed in 1978. They found that as time passed, the models' heights increased as their bust and hip proportions decreased. The models depicted for the entire span of the study weighed thirteen to nineteen percent lower than did the average woman at the given time. Depictions like these set an unachievable standard for women whom men deemed attractive, which would eventually filter down to any given young girl's body image. This process wou
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