Media Impact

I propose that the woman models on magazines with “perfect” hourglass bodies, will affect both the male and female gender to expect woman to follow in their image of "beauty."  

Personally I believe that the human body is beautiful in its own state of comfort and confidence. This is an important research because some women today become mentally and physically ill due to the infatuation to have a model-“thin” body. Also because both men and woman are creating cookie cut images of what a woman’s body should look like, which will be proven through this study. This is how I would conduct this research project- I would use the survey method by collecting poles from both men and woman (ages 16-50). I would let the people choose between two pictures of different body sized woman with the quick question of, "Which woman is more beautiful?" One picture will be of a thin “beautiful” model off a magazine cover, and the other will be a photo of a “beautiful”, realistic, averaged size woman. I predict that both men and woman will find the model from the magazine cover more attractive. This test will prove that the instinct of ones mind is naturally drawn more to this fantasy image of woman.