Perfect body-perfect person?

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/08/16/state-of-the-art-superheroines-and-body-image-2198309?lt_source=external,manual

     Hello folks! This week I decided to focus a bit more seriously on the influence superheroines have on the female audience. First, lets look at where we get the idea of "perfect" body image from- Hollywood has been making movies of superhero comic books for such a long time and still continue to do so. The article "State of The Art: Superheroines And Body Image" by Cedric Cannon, link posted above, explains that the movie stars picked to play superheroines roles are usually closer to the superheroine body image in the comics. Cannon states that "Fashion gets most of the heat but the lack of 'average' and or fuller sized women in prominent roles on TV and in movies also comes into question often", meaning that the media portrays a certain type of body image as important, which therefore influences society. In other words, it eventually makes women question their own body image.
    
     Another article that I found, called "The Influence Of Body Image in Our Society", states "most people worry about their body image because the media is constantly telling us how we 'should' look in order to be 'accepted' by society". Comics, comic movies and the rest of the media create a hypersexualized "perfect" image of a woman or of how a woman "should" look like. In previous posts we have covered that the superhero body type is not necessarily a healthy goal a woman should strive for. It is not easy to achieve, if not impossible or close to impossible, but it may also bring additional problems with physical and mental health. So should we compromise our health in order to "fit in society" and society's brainwashed by the media expectations?
Have you ever thought about the young bulimic or anorexic girl who looks up to the "pretty girls" that fall in the range of the "perfect" body type? Not only is this unhealthy to the bodies of young women but it also affects their self and body esteem. Yet, this is how far the consequences can go from making a Hollywood comic movie with an actress on strict diets
to play the main superheroine. Ironically, the superheroine's duty is to help society.


The link from the second article here : http://pocketcultures.com/2013/08/20/the-influence-of-body-image-in-our-society/