Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Women’s values in today’s society are influenced by media, which is powerful and tremendous. Most women often become obsessed with becoming the same person they see on television, billboards, and in magazines. The reason is because every day more than ten programs shown on TV introduce and publicize the beauty, makeup products, weight-losing advertisements and ways of keeping slimness and fitness, etc. Therefore, in the sample of TV commercial, they show 87% of women in the commercial is young and beautiful and 90.7% of women have slender body shapes. The commercials, advertisements and magazines always over-emphasize perfect standard of female, thus this has huge effects on women’s life and some women start to have high standard of being flawless.