Due to severe problems in my life right now, I will not be blogging for a while.
Until then, listen to "All About That Bass" by Megan Trainor. Great song; my favorite line is "every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top."
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Media Influence ( Part 2 of 2)
In my previous post, I discussed media influence on eating disorders and body image. Today, I want to touch on another aspect of media influence: portrayal of eating disorders.
Movies and television shows seem to show the extreme sides of eating disorders. All of the people suffering with Ed are rich, bratty, typically blonde girls who stand in front of a mirror with their friends, expressing disdain or poor self image. These girls were also pretty obvious about their disordered behavior. Sometimes, the depiction was so ridiculous that after the friend or parent would bring the eating disorder to the girl's attention, the girl would just decide one day to just stop practicing the eating disorder! Just like that!
I think that my favorite of the stupidities shown of eating disorders was the required video for junior high school health class. The girl would have a friend with an eating disorder, start copying her as the "cool way" to lose weight, her mom would catch her purging, blah blah blah.
Full House (one of the feel good, family-friendly shows of the 90s) had an episode where the teenage daughter, DJ, was restricting and over exercising. It was one of the better, more accurate portrayals of eating disorders on the media.
Comment with any other relatively accurate portrayals. :)
Movies and television shows seem to show the extreme sides of eating disorders. All of the people suffering with Ed are rich, bratty, typically blonde girls who stand in front of a mirror with their friends, expressing disdain or poor self image. These girls were also pretty obvious about their disordered behavior. Sometimes, the depiction was so ridiculous that after the friend or parent would bring the eating disorder to the girl's attention, the girl would just decide one day to just stop practicing the eating disorder! Just like that!
I think that my favorite of the stupidities shown of eating disorders was the required video for junior high school health class. The girl would have a friend with an eating disorder, start copying her as the "cool way" to lose weight, her mom would catch her purging, blah blah blah.
Full House (one of the feel good, family-friendly shows of the 90s) had an episode where the teenage daughter, DJ, was restricting and over exercising. It was one of the better, more accurate portrayals of eating disorders on the media.
Comment with any other relatively accurate portrayals. :)
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