Analysis Of Susan Bordo s Globalization Of Eating...

Demi Lovato once said, â€Å"I’m not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.† However, today we find that many individuals are doing the completely opposite. In Susan Bordo’s, â€Å"Globalization of Eating Disorders† essay, they fall into the media trap, the self-image trap, where they are concerned of what people may think about them. Americans nowadays have pageants, modeling, and media to thank for this absurd notion. Fit women, along with strong men give this motivation to others to want to be like them. Most people should be comfortable with their own bodies. Americans are mesmerized with media and enthralled by one’s body image, and ,as a result, face ramifications like eating disorders and anorexia. Why are Americans so†¦show more content†¦Consequences arise with obsession of body image. Once one begins their expedition of trying to be skinnier, more fit, beautiful, and it builds up until it becomes a severe phobia. One begins to slack on eating, differing their diets and what not. In â€Å"The Globalization of Eating Disorders†, Bordo implies that one generation â€Å"becomes the menswear manufacturers, the diet industries, and the plastic surgeons â€Å"discovered† the male body.†(). Males tend to be fond of the strength aspect, strong and tough-minded. Drugs such steroids and others help themselves, because they achieve their goals, or so they think. Instead they deplete themselves, they lose the real journey of trying to become strong and robust. Drugs have side effects, so of course it tends to play with your mental and physical states. According to drugabuse.gov, the use of anabolic steroids increases irritability and aggression in a person.( NIH). Women, however tend to be focused on the â€Å"beauty† aspect. Women want others, to believe and see in them the true beauty of a woman. Females always tend to think their beauty is on the outside, proclaiming their self-image as their â€Å"true beauty.† However, they do not look inside themselves to find it. Inside one person lies the true beauty, not on the outside. It seems to be that way, people judge based off women’s looks and their makeup. Women still, however, want to be beautiful. It messes with their mental state, they become completely