Because I am majoring in Psychology, and would like to specialize in Eating Disorder treatment, I have chosen to focus on this issue for my PSA.
I chose to use the clip 'Corn Chowder' from the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', because it is a perfect example of the pressures and emphasis placed on size, numbers, weight, and food! In this clip, we are given the impression that the models of this company eat nothing, because of the 'size' issue, and that size is more important than the food eaten necessary to fuel your body.
Again, this is another clip from The Devil Wears Prada, and the clip is sending off the same message as the previous one: Size matters. In this clip we have a large closet full of beautiful, expensive, designer clothes, and the only people who can enjoy it are the sizes '2 and 4'. I believe this clip again just makes a point to say that it is important and makes you better if you are a lower size... Even though these sizes are normally unattainable and often times dangerous.
In case you're not catching my drift, the amount of pressure put on being a certain size and looking like a runway model is completely ridiculous, superficial, dangerous, and absolutely pointless. I feel like this is one of our most prevalent PROBLEMS in society and in the media targeted at young women, and this needs to be fixed!!!!!
Haylea
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ReplyDeleteI also watched The Devil Wears Prada, but I didn't found the clips in the moive can be related to our topic. When I was watching the first one, I was like I must have watched this before but I couldn't come up with name of the movie. Anyway, I like your source. Models have to be strict with food. They couldn't eat anything that makes them fat. Keeping the 'size' is more important than anything else for models.
ReplyDeleteI love both your choices of primary sources, but I think that your first one is perhaps more directly relevant, given that it deals with food and food choices. I think that it's a smart idea to tie them into the problem of eating disorders, as we discussed after class, since that's such a major issue in society today, and it will give you a lot to discuss in your ARP.
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