"Never Just Pictures"

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This paper discusses the problems caused by the media projecting certain body images. The paper examines the article "Never Just Pictures" written by Susan Bordo that highlights the impact of print and electronic media on the teenage population. The paper explores this problem as one of the causes of eating disorders amongst adolescents.

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"No matter what the media tells you in its defense against charges of creating body image problems for kids and youth, the fact remains that media has been the biggest and probably the sole cause of emerging body image issues among kids and youth. Every teenager today wants to look like some one they see on TV or magazines, similarly even kids from grade schools have Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera as role models highlighting the impact of print and electronic media on everyone especially youth with their raw impressionable minds. This is the basic argument presented in Susan Bordo's article 'Never Just Pictures'. Bordo asserts that while media complains that it is just pictures and thus not an attempt to change body image or distort the same, the fact of the matter is that to the readers, those are never just pictures."

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