In “The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS”, Gould …show more content…
She shows that eating disorders are somewhat produced by the media that is fed to populations. She gives supporting evidence when she shows a study that was conducted in 1995 to see how media would affect Fijians, who had never been exposed to outside media before. They came back three years later, in 1998, and found that there were many changes that took place with the cultural acceptance of curvier women. The study showed “eleven percent of girls reported vomiting to control weight, and sixty-two percent of the girls surveyed reported dieting during the previous months” (Bordo, 640), which was unheard of since women were very comfortable with their bodies, no matter what size before media was introduced. Then she also introduces the aspect of how males are also becoming victims of eating disorders and that this will soon be a problem that affects both genders equally. She argues that something needs to be done before the epidemic spreads and becomes a bigger crisis than it already