“Specific Page Title or Article Title” Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?” | Body Image |
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV | no author available |
Title of the Entire Website (not www. ) Ex: CBC News | Our Bodies Ourselves |
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC | Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Inc. |
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010 | 2011 |
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012 | February 2,2012 |
<URL address> (ALL of it) |
FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV). |
Our present day culture has been driven by the media but the sad truth is that the media lies, female bodies are "airbrushed and plastic-surgery-enhanced. It’s not surprising that... our views of what women should look like are warped.19 Real women with pubic hair and breasts that aren’t perfect round orbs begin to seem unnatural compared to the altered images we see in the media," (Our Bodies Ourselves). |
Before the media was even invented, before the camera, the "idea of beauty was limited to our own communites. Until the advent of photography in 1839, people were not exposed to real-life images of faces and bodies" (Our Bodies Ourselves). |
The media in the olden days did not really broaden their horizons on who was in front the camera, "Most of the women we see in the media are young and white. Hollywood movies rarely feature women over forty, and the older women we do see represented in the media, from movie stars to news anchors and even politicians, look much younger, thanks to plastic surgery" (Our Bodies Ourselves). These woman needed to look flawless especially if they were over forty. If the woman that were in the public eye did not look perfect people would look at them as if they are "letting themselves go". |
It is very sad to say that the media even affects the women with disabilities as well. They have been brought down to a needy victim and need assistance/ protection, " Because women with bodies that are disabled, fat, or old are seen as deviating from what is "normal" and desirable, we are often presented as stereotypes, rather than as real people" (Our Bodies Ourselves). |
"The media eye, in its many different forms, objectifies all of us" (Our Bodies Ourselves). The media has gotten us to instead of us enjoying what is going on around us we think about how we look while we are doing something, an example would be when you are running, instead of thinking about how good you feel about running you think about how you look like in other people's eyes. |
Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
This article talks about how no one is perfect but they have to look perfect. So to make them perfect women get plastic surgery or have their photos enhanced. In the article it says how most woman that are used in the media are young white women. For the rest of the women like the colored, old looking, and disabled, they are shown as not normal.
Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
The author is not given for this article. The purpose of this site is to help women understand that the perfect bodies and faces that are shown on tv, magazines, etc. are not really perfect. It is okay for a woman to have flaws. You not thinking about these little things will make you happier. Our Bodies Ourselves funds this site.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
The other does not really have anything to gain from this site other than making women happier with their lives and stop making them worry so much about the other women around them.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
I do detect the article being a little bias yes, because it only talks about how the women used in the media are so perfect and they get plastic surgery to look like that.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The site does use a few quotes from women talking about how they feel about the media and how it has affected them in their lives.
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
I plan to use this source to help me get it clearer for people to understand that no one is really perfect and we do not have to look like the people in the media. We should be happy with ourselves and how we are and enjoy every minute of it or it is possible to cause problems in your lives.
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