It seems like everytime I turn on the tv, or flip through the pages of my favorite fashion magazine I seem to compare myself to the sizes of those in the ads! I can't even help it anymore, it seems so subconcious. I understand why models modeling clothes need to be small, sample sizes are little! But what I don't understand is why the girls in the McDonalds commercial need to be petite. Clearly people who eat their food all the time will become anything but, so it makes you wonder if there is a subliminal message in the commercials.
I'm not sure what kind of advertising scheme it is, but for americans today obesity is a real issue and it is amazing that companies can lie to the public in such an obvious way. So, long story short I found myself at McDonalds the other day, craving some fries that defenitely had been fried in oil a good week old. And I knew it was unhealthy, but I just couldn't help it, if the people on tv can do it, why can't i?
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Body image seems like getting important factor in the marketing and advertising. Everybody wants to be skinny. When I saw advertising from the magazine for teenage girls, usually glamorizes skinny models were showing. They are totally different with the average people in the US. I agree with your option about the McDonald’s ads. That is not a factual ads and that can be a deceptive commercial for the consumers. I also saw some commercial from Burger King, which used really skinny model to create their commercials. I think that media is promoting the thin body image in our society and they are making people should be thinner and thinner.
In the day and age that we live in, it's all about being "marketable." No one can market you, if you don't have that image...which is usually incorrect and superficial. Body image is not everything. At the end of the day, it's about being happy with who you are.
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