B O DY
02
POSIT
IVITY
WRITTEN BY: KENDAL MAZZOCCO
In a society focused around social media and
technology, we are constantly bombarded with
thousands of pictures and images a day. Now,
this can mean a number of things but for most
of us it brings a dreadful reality. Women are
constantly being forced into comparing themselves
to others, and worst of all, being forced to compare
themselves to photoshopped bodies and filtered
faces. Media has always put the pressure on women
to become perfect, to have the “ideal” body, but
in today’s world it has become an over the top
obsession. No longer are we just seeing models on
television, movies, and magazines, we are seeing
them every single time we unlock our phones or
check our computers. It is hard enough not to
compare yourselves to others, but when we are
being thrown images (highly edited images to be
exact) at every single aspect of our day it becomes
even easier to find someone to compare yourself
to. How can we, as women, as a society, as a world,
learn to cope with this? How can we get back into
the routine of loving ourselves? How do we stop
comparing ourselves to others?
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