After this week's theme I found I constantly evaluated each ad I saw in a magazine or on a billboard and thought about how it influenced my image of myself. I realize as a young adult, the message I pick up from an ad or perhaps what entices me is much different than from when I was younger. Therefore, I asked myself, what images of women was I surrounded by when I was younger? For the most part, the books I read had images of healthy looking kids my own age...and even today, Dora The Explorer is an image of a girl who is healthy weight-wise and appropriately dressed. I then got to thinking that when I was young it was the princesses and the adult characters that I perceived as the type of women I should look like one day; more so than what the kid characters in books and movies looked like. So I googled some Disney images and here is what I found. Check out the princesses (the good girls we were encouraged to be like or want to be like) and the villains (the women who are bad and wrong). What message did that send to us as kids? Did you ever find yourself scared of an adult woman who looked more like the villain characters when you were young? Did you generalize your notions of a princess and think all older "beautiful" girls were nice? If you found you look more like one of the villains, did you think that meant you were evil or unlikeable? etc.
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