Stereotypes are everywhere and media is one of its major disseminators. For women, the media and models usually set the standard for the stereotype of how a women’s body image should look like. The stereotypical woman is portrayed to be a tall, thin white woman with blonde hair. Beauty magazines are one of the worst offenders because they put a lot of articles in them that tells woman what they should look like and how they should obtain that image. The body image that models give to women is very unnatural, very hard to obtain and extremely unhealthy. Seeing this type of image, this causes a lot of young women to develop bad eating habits and become anorexic (Serdar, 2012). The media not only affects women on body image but also men. Media portrays shirtless men with perfectly fit bodies with a six pack chest, not a single hair on their chest and the perfect hair. Typically, this is not how the average guy looks. Usually people don’t think that men are affected by media body image but they are and it puts a lot of pressure on men as it does women. However most men won’t go to the extreme of eating disorders like anorexia like women, they are more concerned with the hair on their body, their odor and their muscle mass. Magazine and advertisements are a major contributor in this, even on a deodorant commercial for men you don’t see your average Joe, you see a shirtless guy with the perfect cut body. Also, the latino stereotype is very powerful as it is constantly reinforced by the media,TV series and movies. This article by Cosmopolitan shows 16 myths the media has created referring to Latin women specially. Not only the physical but only people's behaviors are stereotyped according to their culture and this is something that should stop since besides being offensive it damages people's reputation. You might be interested in: Latina Stereotypes in Media Stereotypology: Spicy Latinas Women Ideal Body Types Through History
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