I really enjoyed this website and all that it had to offer to women, in the fight against the mainstream media messages. I felt that the site was very user-friendly and provided women with up to date and current issues/actions resulting in positive action towards the de-objectification of women within the media.
Within one of the tabs that I followed into I found this statistic:
A poll conducted by a popular women's magazine found that 75% of women thought they were "too fat" (Glamour,1984). A large scale survey conducted by Garner (1997) found body dissatisfaction to be "increasing at a faster rate than ever before" among both men and women (p. 34). He found that 89% of the 3,452 female respondents wanted to lose weight.
As we have read about within our texts and continue to fight this idea of what I like to call the "invisible-killer", I feel that until we have sites like this linked to web-research/search-engines like google and yahoo, then people will only find out about these amazing sites, via classes or stumbling. That statistics is beyond frigtening and really makes me want to spark up my Mediawatchdog that I've become a part of, trying to catch the companies that are feeding the brainwash to millions of women worldwide.
"a woman can rarely separate her feelings about her physical body from her self-worth" - and this is something that most to all the women think... I know that I sometimes do ...
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That's a really good quote, in the way that it's true. It's a horrible thing that that's the case for most women. I don't know the cause for this, but weight has nothing to do with how good of a person someone is.
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