*profanity* i think i am missing a blog

So, I think I am missing a blog. I think there was supposed to be one more 'blog about progress blog' than I have here. So, here is an update on my progress.
I decided, not to widen my topic, but to touch on the idea that media pushes people into what looks good in fashion ass well, to bring my point about body image closer to home. Some people do not think they are overweight but might think that the shirt they are trying on makes them look fat. Why do they think they look fat if they know they do not? It is the media that has told them that that shirt is unattractive.
And, considering it is Tuesday, I have finished my paper, and feel fairly good about it. I realized I forgot my bibliography, but its all good because I got it to LaMags.

Chat with LaMags, about how she is tight

Okay, so the chat wasn't about how LaMags is tight, but she is. The chat was about how I can't seem to find many people who disagree with me. There are some that say that there are other factors that contribute to body modifications, but also agree that the media is a contributing factor.
In this insightful chat, we talked about how the media influences people in fashion and what is 'cool'. I started to think that maybe I should widen my topic and talk about how the media infuences girls as people, and their roles in society, how they should look fashion wise, as well as body image.




ps. lamags can I do that?

don't make the media my scapegoat?

Today the article I read was the opposite view that I hold. This article said that girls and even boys, do not develop eating disorders because of the media. They say that there are many other factors that lead to this. They do say, however, that the media can make people feel badly about their self image. The main point of the article was that the girls that are being treated for eating disorders have something else in their lives that are contributing to it. At the end of the article, there were short paragraphs from different kids ages 15 and 16, they all agreed that there was pressure in the media to be thin, and to look like the models.


see? even in an Anti article they agree with me.

dear media, please stop being one sided

So, my dear friends, I just read an article online about the media's effect on girls and body image. I article explained about how a child develops and how children, from the time that they are born start to base what they should look like by the way people react to them. It then says the as a child grows older and becomes aware of what societies standards of the perfect body are, they start to want to be like that.
The article gave some good stats to help my argument, 40% of 9 and 10 year old girls that were surveyed, had tried to lose weight. What child needs that pressure? The time that a girl spends watching TV and movies, has a direct correlation with how the girl feels about her body image. Reading magazines for teen girls or women also correlated with body dissatisfaction for girls.

The article also had another part to it about gender roles in the media and how the media presents girls as obsessed with boys, pink, shopping, clothes, dating, and other stereotypical girl qualities. The media uses these qualities to try to relate to girls. This even though it is a different topic, helps my argument because it shows how the media influences girls in other ways besides their body image.

progress.... slowly is better than standing still

So the progress is coming, but slowly. I have decided that I am going to do my paper on body image and how it leads to plastic surgery and other body modifications. I think the way I am going to approach it is tlaking about body image in the media and how it affects young girls, (or women in general) and then talk about plastic surgery as an option, and if it should be allowed/ legal/ easy to get done/ able to get done when under 18 even with parental consent. I will have to do more research to be able to decide which of these I will focus on.

I think the main reason that I want to do this topic, besides the fact that I will be able to gather a lot of research, is that I am a girl of the age that the media is targeting. (shocking I know) The media and advertising prey on the insucurities of teenage girls to sell their products or to get them to watch their shows. The paper will not have apathy if I talk about this because it affects me.

reasonable proposals lead to reasonable answers

The first proposal argument at the end of chapter 15, about hosts at this restaurant getting paid better with tips is a good argument in my opinion. Laurel, the author, used to be a host at one of these restaurants and knows what it feels like to be an under appreciated and under paid hostess. She is able to gain her credibility because she used to be one, and she also has worked at other restaurants. Her proposal of having the servers pay 1% of their tips, is a good one, and would work because it works in other restaurants. It must work because others do it.
Her proposal is “doable” because it does not hurt the sever any, and it helps the hosts. When the hosts are happy, they are more likely to do a better job and the turnover rate would be lower. Having a lower turnover rate will make them more competitive with surrounding restaurants, which would ultimately make them more money. It’s a good argument because how can the company turn an idea down if it will make them more money without any cost to them?

ohh the choices... what to do?

So, I am really having a hard time thinking of things I am truly interested in. I thought it would be easy to think up a problem, but all the things I come up with would have to have huge research projects on how to fix the problems. And I don't just mean that I would have to do a lot of research, I mean I would basically have to so some random chemistry or something to solve these problems. Therefore, knowing these were impossible problems for an English assignment, I decided to think on a smaller scale. The topics I came up with were:

The deterioration of the public school system
choice of school

Teen pregnancy rates
sex education

High school dropout rates
public vs private

body image in the media
self mutation
plastic surgery

Now, you can see that these are not small problems... think about what my other topic were. haha