Slim Hopes: Advertising&the Obsession With Thinness


http://... Kilbourne's award-winning video offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women's health. Addressing the relationship between these images and the obsession of girls and women with dieting and thinness, Slim Hopes offers a new way to think about life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and a well-documented critical perspective on the social impact of advertising.

Slim Hopes is a lively and engaging program suitable for a wide range of audiences at high schools, colleges anduniversities. Using over 150 ads, it informs as it entertains, allowing viewers to build an analytic framework for considering the impact of advertising on women's health.







Channel: News
Uploaded: October 4, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Author: ChallengingMedia

Length: 00:05:10
Rating: 4.73
Views: 163507

Tags: Education Disorders MEF Sut Women Jean Media Mass Critical Kilbourne Eating Jhally Literacy Educational Health Industry

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totallybarefoot (October 14, 2008 at 11:52 pm)
No disrespect intended. Yes, Paris is tall&gorgeous, has feet so huge she could not buy shoes in a department store, and she is abnormal.

So am I.

I only wanted to say that girls built like Paris are just that way by nature. Gaining weight would not make them gorgeous lush thick Evas and JLos. It would just make them tall fine boned women with excess fat hanging in all the wrong places.

I know this from youthful experience trying to be full figured. LOL@me!
totallybarefoot (October 14, 2008 at 11:35 pm)
Well said!

Perhaps we need to shift from a "how you look" ideal to a "how you perform" ideal.

I hated being judged as "good because you are slim" when it was nothing I had DONE.

But I loved riding, shooting, archery, ballet (it hurt like hell my skinny undeveloped muscles) and martial arts.

I'm old now. When I remember the great moments of my life, I don't remember what size I was or what I wore. I remember how my body felt. How it FELT to be inside that body.
totallybarefoot (October 14, 2008 at 11:15 pm)
Look, body image issues are not caused by magazines.

As a young woman I had the culturally ideal body type: tall, fine boned, slender, willowy. I never thought about my weight until girls asked me how I got that way. I felt senseless guilt re my genes.

Prior, I'd tried overeating in the hopes I would grow a bosom. The example of my best friends agony over her D cups at 12 did not deter me from wishing.

Media told us each we were the "ideal" and it did not help us with body image.
totallybarefoot (October 14, 2008 at 10:15 am)
Paris Hilton is naturally very tall, fine boned, and slender. She has developed muscles. Her ribs do not show. There is nothing wrong with the way Paris Hilton looks. She is not painfully thin or unnatural. Now, Jennifer Lopez can never look like that, now would she want to. But don't hate on tall slender girls.