Reaction

America has always placed upon society certain expectations. It isn’t supprising what I read in the book. Everywhere you turn to you see posters or billboards of beautiful women or sexy guys and whatnot. To many people, these models, musicians, and actor/actresses serve as icons and idols to the younger minority. Everyone finds influence from something, could come from peer pressure to persuasion from televesion or a billboard ad. This influence that the media and these people have over us isn’t all bad though. How many people have been encouraged by something they have seen on television, the news, in the sports, on the radio, that encouraged them to get up and do something constructive with their time or talents or money. I know i was encouraged by my favorite athlete to try sand be the best at whatever sport i played. I have friends who saw ads on tv. and guys on the cover of male fitness magazines, who decided i want to be more like those guys and try to better myself. At the same time though, most men aren’t to be as influenced by the goal to be skinny and sexy like women are. The pressure placed onto a woman to have a certain figure and certain weight is definately blown out of porportion. You see on tv. all the time abuot anerexia and balemia, and other certain eating and health disorders usually related to women. Truth is not many guys out there are looking for a girl who weighs under 100 lbs, even though the media places pressure towards women to be like this, there is no need. You look in magazines and see pictures of men, and all you see are either the big beefy steroidal guys, or the sculpted cut from stone guys and thats how we are supposed to look to women.  The thing is is that you look at these people and how men are pictured to look, and helf of these guys are made of muscle with no brians to back them up.