Thinspiration:
- the aspiration of being extremely skinny
- admiring pictures of bone-thin women
- specifically Tumblr pictures
- promotion of eating disorders
- the clothing size system in the United States of America
- sizes that used to be larger are now numbered smaller
- size 2 now used to be a size 8
- makes women feel better about their size
- using terms such as "fat" or "skinny" to belittle people and their bodies
- hating specific parts of your body
- wishing you could change specific parts of your body
- verbal and physical abuse to your body
- plus size women are not as "beautiful"
- they are too fat to model certain clothing
- we are so used to seeing stick thin models, that a curvy model is ostracised
- "skinny women look better in certain clothes" ----> bias opinion of the media/fashion industry
- plus size women promote obesity and unhealthy lifestyles
- "regular" models promote the ideal body for the clothes they are wearing
- trying to have the "perfect body"
- obsession with having a thigh gap (feet together, knees together, thighs apart)
- eating too much (binge eating), or too little (starving yourself)
- anorexia nervosa
- bulimia nervosa
- intense fear of gaining weight
- self-harm
- lack of nutrition
- emaciation
- death
- NOT HEALTHY
- trying to look sexy and attractive to boys
- wearing tight and revealing clothing
- wearing excessive amounts of makeup
- attracting sexual attention from boys
- attempting to look like women in the media and in movies and television shows
- western standards of beauty revolve around the idea of being "skinny"
- there is only a small percentage of people who think it is better to be "fit" rather than "skinny"
- facial beauty features are more culturally based
- skin color preference is culturally based
- pants that are 000 in size
- unrealistic standard
- extremely thin legs are the only ones that come close to fitting
- bone-like body structure needs to be attained
- J.Crew is one of the fashion companies that uses models that are this skinny
- promotes eating disorders in order to attain this body
- models are "scarily thin"
- the ability to edit photographs or videos, so that you look nothing like yourself
- can make yourself or others look: tan, thin, tall, short, fat, skinny, big eyes, perfect eyebrows, perfect skin
- basically it gives you the power to make things look unreal and perfect
- it is not possible for most pictures in the media to realistically look the way they are portrayed to look
- makes models look more appealing, as well as celebrities
- creates an unrealistic beauty standard for the women of the world
- makes us lose touch with what is reality ---> ourselves and others around us, and how they look in our own eyes