Adolescents today are continually developing a negative self-concept
             resulting from the negative effects of the mass media. The commonness and
             the impact of the mass media on adolescent girls are directly linked to the
             development of forming a negative body image. For years, the media has
             molded the public to view beauty according to their standards, to be model
             like, obtain an ultra-thin body, to be sexy and most importantly to be
             perfect in there appearance. Adolescent girls cannot read a magazine or
             newspaper, turn on the T.V. listen to the radio or shop at the mall without
             being assaulted with the message that "fat" is bad. The influence of the
             media is powerful at the age, and because of the strong yet negative
             influence it has on adolescent girls, it often times leads them to obsesses
             about their appearance leading them to cause serious harm to their bodies,
             such as an eating disorder. Because sexism is presented in all aspects in
             mass media, my research paper will focus on how sexism shown in the media
             and its negative affects causes eating disorders and poor body image in
             adolescent girls due to the pressures of obtaining an ideal body image.
             Each day, the average adolescent girl is exposed to four-hundred to
             six-hundred advertisements per day illustrating "the perfect body" or "the
             perfect life." As artificial as these ideas may be, adolescent girls under
             the age of eighteen take on the media culture as a symbol, or
             representation, of what to grow to be. Countless hours on television are
             given to advertisements attempting to convince consumers that buying a
             product will result in thinness, beauty, increased acceptance but more
             importantly popularity among their peers, loved ones and within themselves.
             The media rarely presents a women's average body type to the viewers as a
             positive message but goes as far as deeming those who are overweight or
             "ugly" as the loser in any gi...