Question

Susan Bordo's examination of the connection between popular culture images and our attitudes about our bodies is complicated. This is due to the fact that as Bordo puts it, "Eating disorders are overdetermined in this culture" (par. 5). According to Bordo, what factors cause eating disorders? List as many as you can find in the essay? "Never just pictures"

Answer 1

By reading "Never just pictures" we were able to find some factors that cause eating disorders. According to the author, these factors are:

• Valorization of super-thin bodies by the media.
• Use of very thin models as a beauty standard.
• Curse swearing that has more voluptuous bodies and is out of the standard of thinness.
• The fashion industry.

Step-by-step explanation:

According to Susan Bordo, in "Never just pictures" the media is the biggest factor causing eating disorders. This is because it is the media that sets the standard of beauty when using extremely thin models, as examples of beauty and attractiveness. In addition, media outlets are very critical of actresses who present themselves with fatter bodies, harassing them in articles and TV shows. The fashion industry also plays a role in these disorders, determining what an ideal body is, a body that will look beautiful in any outfit. This causes people, especially women, to seek at all times to reach a dangerous level of thinness. These people, desperate to achieve this standard of beauty, are unable to see themselves thin, even if they are already skeletal and therefore develop eating disorders.