In our society today, everywhere we look there are advertisements for products to ‘make you look younger’, ‘get you in shape’, give you that body you’ve “always desired”. Because our society has become so technologically advanced and dependent on the technology, kids are being introduced to these ads and images from a very young age. I think that right now in our society there is a growing number of people, especially teenagers and girls, that have self esteem and self confidence problems. All these images being put out there by companies to advertise their products that purposely make the consumers and public feel bad about them themselves and inadequate so that the consumers feel like they need the product to make themselves acceptable to society are all a part of the problem that is lowering self esteem. I feel that women have always been objectified to a certain extent by men and now the media, and these images are starting to make things even worse. Companies use women and their bodies to sell almost everything. ‘Beautiful’ and ‘perfect’ women are used to make products more appealing or to make consumers think that they can look like that if they use the products. In reality, it is almost physically impossible to look like the people in the ads.
With our technology, photo shopping the models make them appear near perfect and very appealing to society. Perfect does not physically exist in our society as humans. It is only something that we imagine and desire but can never achieve.
