Body Changes Over the Years

I think it is a little ridiculous how much the "perfect" body image has changed over the years. If you look at the dolls that children play with now and back in our parents day the images of men have gotten increasingly bigger and more muscular and the girls have gotten smaller and more meek. It just shoes how that men are expected to be threatening and in charge while women are supposed to just fade in to the back ground and obey social norms. In magazine ads it is the same as dolls. Women in magazines are usually models that are starving themselves to reach that "perfect" body that the media has told them they need to achieve and the men are usually athletes. The images that people are getting is that it isn't okay to be your own person and that you have to conform to what the media says you need to be. we are always taught to be individuals but are then told what we should be doing as those individuals. Society is sending us contradictory messages and something needs to change.