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The social media beauty cult | DW Documentary
By Anonymous At September 10, 2019 0
Social media are influencing the way women feel about their own bodies. Young women in particular are constantly being confronted with pictures of beautiful female bodies online - images which have almost always been digitally enhanced. This documentary take a long and alarming look at young women whose everyday lives are dictated by the search for bodily perfection. The more users click their way through Instagram, Facebook and so on, the greater their dissatisfaction with their own appearance becomes. Hardly anyone can escape the pull of this illusory world, where beauty, fitness and lifestyle count for everything. The consequences an even be fatal: slimming and fitness crazes, eating disorders of all kinds, body shaming and sexism. During her research, filmmaker Jennifer Rezny came across a Canadian study that found that young women’s insecurity has been increased by social media. It feels like almost everyone is trying to present themselves on Instagram in slick filter-processed selfies these days. Despite increasing calls for diversity, the "ideal” female body still dominates the media's perception of female beauty. Numerous movements and initiatives - even on the part of the fashion and advertising industries themselves - have had little effect. "The female body has always been a carrier of female identity. It's nothing new for us women to be objectified and sexualised,” says Rezny. "There has also been a great deal of social development, but we are still not where we should be and where we women want to be, in an equal society. And in any case, we live in a meritocratic society, one defined and colored by capitalism, which always has to be optimized and improved. It can never be enough.” --------------------------------------------------------------------
Media sosial memengaruhi perasaan wanita tentang tubuh mereka sendiri. Wanita muda khususnya terus-menerus dihadapkan dengan gambar-gambar tubuh wanita cantik secara online - gambar yang hampir selalu ditingkatkan secara digital. Film dokumenter ini membutuhkan waktu lama dan mengkhawatirkan para wanita muda yang kehidupan sehari-harinya ditentukan oleh pencarian kesempurnaan tubuh. Semakin banyak pengguna mengklik jalan mereka melalui Instagram, Facebook dan sebagainya, semakin besar ketidakpuasan mereka dengan penampilan mereka. Hampir tidak ada orang yang bisa lepas dari tarikan dunia ilusi ini, di mana kecantikan, kebugaran, dan gaya hidup penting bagi semua. Konsekuensinya bahkan berakibat fatal: pelangsingan dan kegilaan kebugaran, gangguan makan dari semua jenis, mempermalukan tubuh dan seksisme. Selama penelitiannya, pembuat film Jennifer Rezny menemukan sebuah penelitian di Kanada yang menemukan bahwa ketidaknyamanan wanita muda telah meningkat oleh media sosial. Hampir seperti semua orang mencoba menampilkan diri mereka di Instagram dalam selfie yang telah diproses dengan filter yang apik belakangan ini. Terlepas dari seruan untuk keberagaman, tubuh perempuan "ideal" masih mendominasi persepsi media tentang kecantikan perempuan. Banyak gerakan dan inisiatif - bahkan dari industri fashion dan periklanan sendiri - memiliki pengaruh yang kecil. "Tubuh wanita selalu menjadi pembawa identitas wanita. Bukan hal baru bagi kita wanita untuk diobjektifikasi dan seksual," kata Rezny. "Ada juga banyak perkembangan sosial, tetapi kita masih belum di mana kita seharusnya berada dan di mana kita ingin menjadi perempuan, dalam masyarakat yang setara. Dan dalam setiap kasus, kita hidup dalam masyarakat meritokratis, ditentukan dan diwarnai oleh kapitalisme, yang selalu h
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