Perfect, is it possible?

The world has come up with standards for women, and those standards are not only seen on the TV, in commercials, in magazines, in newspapers, on the runway, in movies, and every other place in the media. Women are constantly trying to be this perfect girl, and so I decided to do a little experiment, I goggled "How to be the Perfect Girl" and the first article that came up was a guide entitled "How to be A Perfect Girl." This article talks about how girls need to brush their teeth every day, promoting a perfectly white smile, just like in all of those toothpaste commercials. For instance, Crest toothpaste often airs commercials where a girl gets boys because of her shiny smile! They talk about how you have to sit lady like, and use a good screen name. It's like the article is generalizing the girl, and taking out the individuality of each one of them.

The media describes the perfect girl as not too short, but not too tall. They cannot be too thin, like the Stars of the new 90210, where many of the actresses are being harassed for being "too thin for TV" or Jessica Simpson, who is being called fat.

Certainly, she does not look fat to me! If young girls are being told that Jessica Simpson is fat, how do they feel about themselves?

Young girls, starting at the age of 5 and 6 are having eating disorders. Does anyone remember the 2 young girls who were in the media not too long ago? One appeared on Good Morning America, where she stated "I think sweatpants make my legs look fat," [Even though she is thin, the little girl said she runs to keep her weight down.] "I don't want the fat to spread all over my body." (http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/disorders_start_early.shtml) The other young girl ate paper, yes paper instead of food because she thought that she was chubby like in her baby pictures! A lot of people say that not only is the media, in forms of television and movies, but in the toys that many young girls are playing with. Take for instance, Barbie. What does she look like?

Barbie has a very unporportional waist line, a busty breasts and butt and thin legs and arms. She is a body that is unachievable to most all women! So if a little girl looks at herself and sees that her hips and waist are the same size, she immediately thinks she is chubby.

Hopefully, this idea of a perfect girl will soon disappear or at least be changed to included real women, like in the Dove Real Beauty Campaign. Perfect in unachievable by all, now why can the media not see that?