Bordo explores the normalization of diet culture and how the media represents the bodies of women. This body spurs a myriad of health problems, which include eating disorders and body dysmorphia. The beauty myth creates feelings of inadequacy and fosters “an ideology that makes women feel worthless” (Wolf 185).Ī similar point is made in Susan Bordo’s “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.” Bordo argues that there is an idealized body that is placed on a societal pedestal for all women to look up to. Women are pushed by society to submit to the aesthetic expectations placed upon them by men and society as a whole. She argues the beauty myth is a “dark vein of self-hatred physical obsessions, terror of aging, and dread of lost control” (Wolf 180). Wolf makes the argument that women are held to an unreachable standard that forces them to scrutinize their bodies. “The Beauty Myth,” written by Naomi Wolf explores the standards of beauty set for women throughout the course of history.
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