Respond to at least one of your colleague’s postings in one or more of the following ways:
- Ask a probing question.
- Share an insight gained from having read your colleague’s posting.
- Offer and support an opinion.
- Make a suggestion.
- Expand on your colleague’s posting.
- Be sure to use references when responding
DB 1—Lakiesha
Description
The advertisement I chose was models and what they endure to walk some of the biggest catwalks of Paris, New York, and Milan. The title speaks volume but so does the look of the models, for they are all tall and thin with chiseled.
Feelings
The advertisement made me feel like I could not relate. I did not see anyone that even resembled me, not of the face but more so the body type. However, within the title, the word slave stood out to me, as the article went into detail explaining the young models following their dreams. Nevertheless, they were living a nightmare that involved debt, low pay, consumption, depression as well as suppression.
Affect
This advertisement may affect a child in many ways because a picture can give false hope, just like makeup can cover up a bruise. The understating that everything that glitters is not gold needs to be said to the adolescent and or child. Modeling has a lot of behind-the-scenes trauma and everyone that goes in does not come out the same. Stay thin within this field often comes with starvation and other eating disorders, or just being compared to someone else, therefore, competing within your own self-worth and esteem.Given the recent focus on eating disorders in children, counselors must consider eating concerns that affect children of all racial and ethnic groups and hence are effective in working with this population (Talleyrand, 2010).We must teach, praise, give compliments and affirmations when letting them always know that they are good enough in whatever shape, form, or fashion they come.
Reference
Afp. (2021, March 09). ‘Slaves to debt’: Fashion models speak out about catwalk misery. Retrieved May 05, 2021, from https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/slaves-to-debt-fashion-models-speak-out-about-catwalk-misery/2018092739173
Talleyrand, R. M. (2010). Eating disorders in African American girls: implications for counselors. Journal of Counseling and Development, 88(3), 319.
DB 2—Mel
Victoria’s Secret Advertisement
https://professorramos.blog/2018/07/13/victorias-s…
Description of Advertisement
Victoria’s Secret is very well known for its intimate appeal being bra’s, undies, other intimate apparel. In Victoria’s Secret advertisement, the author’s role is to persuade the audience by selling sex appeal to consumers (Ramos, 2018, para. 1). It says that it displays women with perfect abs of all nationalities. At first glance, it only depicts white women. Only one woman may be African American, but she has a very light skin tone and long straight hair. It is also a false depiction of women of color. As if saying they only want this body type and skin tone shopping in their stores. The intentions of Victoria’s Secret are not to say that all women should look this way, but the bold headline tells a different story because it helps to sell their products.
Feelings About Advertisement
Personal feelings about the ad are that it is degrading to bigger-sized women and adolescents who are shapelier. Being a bigger woman myself, I cannot shop their collection line as they do not have my size in any of their items. I love the body that I am in, but this ad tells me that my body size is all but perfect. Remembering back to my teen years, I could only imagine how hurtful it may have been to think that my body was less than ideal because the ad says so.
Effects on an Adolescent
According to Ramos (2018), their PINK collection focuses on attracting young women ranging from ages 15 to 22 years old, primarily high school and college students (para. 3). Within the PINK collection are bra’s, undies, tops, and bottoms, which are more fit for younger thin girls. They are body shaming, and that can lead to poor body image. Their sizes are not for all body shapes or sizes, meaning that it is not meant for bigger girls to wear, degrading other shapes and sizes. With their ad and the sizes of apparel that they sell it presents to adolescents that if they are bigger than this, they are not perfect. Body dissatisfaction can produce negative self-esteem in adolescent girls when their body image is most important (Hargraves & Tiggeman, 2004, p. 351). Body dissatisfaction comes mainly from media images such as the one from the Victoria Secrets ad. It can have significant negative impact that can lead to eating disorders, extreme dieting, excess exercising, low self-esteem, and depression.
References
Hargraves, D. A. & Tiggeman, M. (2004, December). Idealized media images and adolescent
body image: “comparing” boys and girls. Body Image, 1(4), 351-361.
Ramos. (2018, July 12). Victoria’s Secret Perfect Body.
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