Shape Magazine

After all the awareness assignments being brought forth in class, I started thinking a lot about how magazines and the media portrays women. I started looking around on some websites and magazines having to do with fitness and women and what I easily noticed was that in the March, April, and May magazines were the same article.
All the articles had to do with losing weight, toning muscles, and to get that bikini body in 2 weeks! The magazine I looked at mostly was Shape magazine and the articles within it. All the articles were talking about you can perfect your body and most importantly, how you can lose weight and not just tone. These articles are sending the message that women are constantly in need of losing weight and they don’t just have to tone their body.
I believe it is magazines like these that affect women's everyday lives in their continuous quest to become what the media wants them to be. I feel like these magazines should publish stories on how to tone or even how to maintain the body that you want. Women need to feel empowered, not scared of what they look like. They should promote more articles about loving your body and just accepting who you are.

- Melanie Chaput TuTh 9:30