11.18.2006
Journal Entry F
Discuss teenagers and body image. Do you think teens are more sensitive about their bodies than college age students and older women? Why is this so or not? How can girls live with society’s expectations of beauty without being chained to some unrealistic expectation? Do you think it's more important for society and the media to be more tolerant of different body types, or do girls and women need to be more tolerant with their own bodies?
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I think that teenagers are more sensitive about the way they look because of the way the stars that they look up to look on TV and in magazines. I think that teenagers are more sensitive because their life is based on the media. I think that it is very hard for a girl to feel like they fit in society’s expectations of beauty because society has a mold or an idea of the perfect person and that is how they want every one to look and if a girl doesn’t look or fit into that mold then they are ignored and left out of everything involved with the media because they done look right which can really lower their self- esteem. I think that it is very important that society, media, and Hollywood be more tolerant to women because of all shapes and sizes because then all the girls who watch them on TV think that they should look just like them. If girls don’t look like just like the stars or fit the mold of a perfect person then they feel very self conscious and become very sensitive about the way they look. If the media showed more women that had all different kinds of body shapes and sizes then I think that teenage girls wouldn’t be as sensitive about the way they look because they would think that it is ok to look how they look because the media is showing people like them in ads, television shows, and in movies. They could have more women that look like them to look up to.
It seems that most teenagers have a negative body image. The problem seems to affect mostly girls but some boys too. Sometimes their perception of their body is completely off but sometimes they are right. I think the problem affects teenagers more because the teen years are the time when the body is growing and changing the most. Sometimes people can’t handle all the changes and start to hate their “new body.” For girls it is especially hard because the media says that all girls should be stick thin. Most famous people and models are extremely skinny so girls think that being like them is the only way to be pretty. I think that the media should stop showing off all the stick thin girls and show everyone some people with different body types. I also think girls need to deal with their own self image better. They need to realize that not everyone can be a size 2 but they can still look good. It’s hard to change what you look like, so they just need to deal with it and get used to it. I think most of the pressure on girls comes from other girls though. If one girl is a little bit overweight, some girls make fun of them and tell them they are fat. Usually the result is crying and an even lower self-esteem, which honestly just ends up annoying people. Everyone needs to stop being so judgmental of each other and start accepting them for who they are.
Haley Cook
Journal Entry F
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The major ideas that were highlighted during my group’s last discussion, on November 27, were mainly questions we had about the book. Why is Susan alone? Why does Susan’s father act the way he does toward Susan and Tom? Why do you think Susan and Tom’s father is that way? My reactions to these questions were that Susan is alone because her classmates have deemed her a “freak”, or loner. I think her weight is only partly the matter; her classmates know they can pick on her and won’t get in trouble. They know that no one is going to do anything about it so they go ahead and do it to seem cool or to feel better about themselves. I think that Susan and Tom’s father is the way he is because he is not aware of his blind rudeness to his children. I think he is emotionally detached to them because of the death of his wife, Susan and Tom’s mother. And so doesn’t realize what he is saying and how negatively it is affecting his children. I felt comfortable sharing my reactions to these questions, as the discussion was very easy going, more of a brainstorm time, in which we shared our opinions, listened to the thoughts of others, and asked our own questions about the story. I contributed to the discussion as I gave my thoughts about what had happened so far in the novel, and answered, to the best of my ability, questions other group members had.
Melissa Kinsella
Journal Prompt: F Entry
November 30, 2006
Teenagers are more self-confident about their body because of the society around them. We see fully matured woman all over the place, so we can't help it but compare ourselves to them. When you see these beautiful woman you just have to remember what they go through to look like that. Girls should'nt be so hard on themselves. They need to look in the mirror and smile at who they're looking at. It makes me so sad when i see girls just putting themselves down. You don't have to be self-centered and conceited. You just have to be happy with who you are and love yourself. Society should learn to congratulate the beautiful and successful woman out there.
-April Helton
Well, I think that now in days, it is somewhat a large issue, in terms of when you see it on the news or anything similar to that. I've known many complain about their looks, but then again, I've known many who could care less on how they look like. Most girls want to weight a certain amount, making it their goal. But more people today want to look a little slimmer than the way they look now, but I wouldn't say they'd want to look skinny as a toothpick. I think teens are more sensative than maybe collage aged students because they have more to care about than simply the way they look. And younger girls just beggining school, or something, would want to look their best to make a good first impression. Some girls may want to cut the junk food, or eat more healthier food, or fat free. Some may eat, then burn off the fat by excersising. But one wouldn't want to stop eating, or somehow turn anorexic. I don't believe that today, that would be a realistic issue, not that I know of. But in terms of the society, I think all the society should atleast be aware of how they are eating, and choose to eat healthy, rather than choose to look skinnier.
jake
I think that girls in high school are more sensitive about their bodies because they see all the older women like Paris Hilton and girls like that and think they should have perfect bodies and look just like them so they think their fat and ugly because societies showing them that they need to be perfect and if a person makes fun of them they get really sad and depressed. Guys on the other hand just try not 2 be actually fat we don’t really care as much about our weight because weight doesn't really matter as much unless your overly huge we wont really pick on you too much I think girls and guys should be a little worried about their bodies but I don’t think they should be always concerned about it but they should care a little I think the media should be a little more tolerant because they say being fat is bad and then they say being skinny is bad so girls try to align themselves as best as they can so I think the media should loosen up a little bit. I think that girls in high school are more sensitive about their bodies because they see all the older women like Paris Hilton and girls like that and think they should have perfect bodies and look just like them so they think their fat and ugly because societies showing them that they need to be perfect and if a person makes fun of them they get really sad and depressed. Guys on the other hand just try not 2 be actually fat we don’t really care as much about our weight because weight doesn't really matter as much unless your overly huge we wont really pick on you too much I think girls and guys should be a little worried about their bodies but I don’t think they should be always concerned about it but they should care a little I think the media should be a little more tolerant because they say being fat is bad and then they say being skinny is bad so girls try to align themselves as best as they can so I think the media should loosen up a little bit.
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