In Tuesday's class, we talked about how society puts a lot of pressure on girls to look thin, and how this is depicted in media. It is most notably shown with runway models, these girls who are often teenagers are pressured to be so thin that they harm themselves to do so. But this may soon be a practice of the past. In Spain, they no longer allow models to be below a certain BMI, because of the negative self image this can instill in children. I feel that this is a step in the right direction, it is very scary that young women are dieing because of their jobs. As much as many many women refuse to admit that the thin people shown in advertisements has an effect on them, I believe it does. I actually know a 52 year old woman, who is still very obsessed with being thin. she is 5'6" and 130 lbs wears a size 4-6 and complains that this is the heaviest she has ever been. and sadly there are many more instances of this. But to help combat this, Hanes has launched a campaign of more realistic looking women in their ads, and I hope more companies will follow this.