2. Have YOU ever met a girl who was 5’9”, 39-18-33, with a size
3 shoe, weighing 110 lbs??
Why do we want to look like Barbies??
13.1 million body parts were surgically altered in 2010, 5% of
patients were under 20 years old.
3. The Myth:
“I want a girl who is 5’3”, 36-
24-36, with light skin, long
hair and green eyes.
The Reality:
The average height for a
woman aged 20-29 in the US
is 5’5”, and women are
getting taller and taller.
Most African-American
women have naturally
curly, short or medium
length hair and dark brown
eyes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#Average_height_around_the_world
4. The Myth
I want a tall man with a nice body and perfect skin and
teeth.
The Reality
The average height for a man in the US is 5’10”
IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND
MONEY TO LOOK LIKE THIS!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#Average_height_around_the_world
5. Adolescents and young adults are constantly exposed to
celebrities and models whose only job is to look good. Of
COURSE a video girl can have toned abs and nice
curves, because she makes her living going to the gym and
shooting videos! For the average person, this is simply not
the reality.
6. In white culture, women are more pressured to be skinny than curvy.
Many celebrities suffer from eating disorders in the attempt to fit into a
“supermodel” mold.
Teenagers are constantly targeted with ideas of achieving physical
perfection instead of feeling perfect as they are or achieving health.
Teenagers are being pressured into societal ideas of beauty at younger
and younger ages. Magazines geared towards young girls feature more
ads about beauty products and weight loss than anything else.
Noticing a pattern??
7. Models, actresses, video girls, and other celebrities have
entire TEAMS of people who make them look good. Not only
that, after they are styled to perfection, the pictures are
STILL airbrushed before they hit print. However, men see
these girls and think “She’s bad. I want my girl to look like
her.”
8. Even some of
Hollywood’s most
beautiful women are not
perfect enough for
today’s media!
9.
10. Approximately 8 million
Americans have an eating
disorder; 1 million of those are
men.
1 in 200 American women is
anorexic, and 2-3 in 100 are
bulimic.
10-15% of people with anorexia
or bulimia are males.
Anorexia is the 3rd most
common illness among
adolescents.
80% of 13 year olds have
attempted to lose weight.
50% of girls 11-13 see
themselves as overweight.
http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm
11. Hip Hop music and culture demotes monogamy. More value
is placed on being sexually promiscuous than being in a
committed relationship, and as a result, more young people,
especially men are remaining single until they’ve “had their
fun.” Women are seen less as wives and mothers and more as
hoes and objects of sexual affection.
“Girls are like buses every 15 minutes one, man they like potato chips I
just cannot have one” –Gucci Mane
“Run and hit that p**** like a crash dummy. Bend it over, touch ya
toes, shake that a** for me” –Travis Porter
“Bounce that a** shake that a** like the twerk team. Hair long a**
fat, shawty mean” –Waka Flocka
THIS IS WHAT OUR TEENAGERS ARE LISTENING TO!
