alejandro's Historical context:
The perception of body image affects women at high rates. Hawkins licensed psychologist for center of change argues that: research suggests that 86% of all women are dissatisfied with their bodies and want to lose weight. Women and adolescent girls regard size, much like weight, as a definitive element of their identity.
The idea of body image has always been around for as long as mankind can trace back to, but the idea of body image in today's world first started in Vienna, Austria in the 1930's by an Austrian neurologist, Paul Schilder, who wrote a book about the body and it's physical appearance that same year. The issue began when the realization that the idea of body image was causing people to go to extreme unhealthy measures harming themselves to have "the perfect body". People began to have eating disorders and low self esteem. this issue has increased ever since the 1930's and both women and men all over the world have been or are being affected by it up to this day. The idea of body image came about because of the influence that the media put on TV or on the shelves at the stores to target young kids and brainwash them with this perception of what they are displaying is what is right and if they do not resemble what they are showing on TV or on the toy shelves, then they are not good enough physically to be beautiful or handsome.
People always wonder what it would be like to be alive at the time that the idea of the perfect body image arose. We don't need to wonder what it would be like because up to this day the media and marketers are still displaying images that they believe is the right and most perfect way a man and woman should look. The way we are dealing with this issue today is how people felt way back to the time when it first started.
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