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== Article Evaluation ==

Women’s appearance in the media has become widely destructive in the past years. In the Wikipedia article, “Media depictions of body shape”, there has been many accusations to how women are portrayed in the media. A few subtitles are magazines, models, television, video games, non-fiction media, and children’s media. My topic on women’s portrayal on body image relates to the magazines, models, and television because majority of society is looking at this. I feel that most of the information provided is relevant except some of the dates. I know that there was a time frame that some of the researchers had looked over were from the 1950’s to 1999. I feel this is great to know the history of how women are portrayed in magazines but I do not feel it is relevant to the contemporary time period. I also realized when reading this article, majority of this information is about weight and fitting into the norms of society. I feel there should be many more different ways of how media portrays women. There could be a lot of more factors that play along like social media. This title of the article is very broad for what they discuss in it. They talk a lot about weight and based on the title it does not have that in there. Relating to my topic which is on the portrayal of body image on women in menstruation, this article is very different. In our WMST298N class we discuss gender and race, in particular my topic relates to all races and the gender is specified to women; however, there are still males talked about in this article I read and how men have to reach stereotypes within their body ideal norms.