Mass Media: Undermining Natural Body

Mass media plays a significant role in shaping the way people think and imagine. It encourages them to adapt to whatever it is showing. People start wearing and eating whatever they see through the lenses of the mass media. One of the impacts of the mass media on people's thinking is that it changed the way people imagine human body. It shifted the track as a whole, and now, people are heading towards something which is not the reality.

Go through movies, serials, posters, banners or any other this which is put for the purpose of advertisement, you will find that men who are portrayed all over, do not have a normal healthy body, instead they are showing abs and shapes of muscles. Sometimes six, sometimes eight and sometimes more than it.

Years before, actors were not used to be body builders, and then came the era of Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt, and now, to make the matters worse, men get chances to act in movies, even though they do not know the basics of acting, provided they have an attractive body, adorned with some well swollen abs.

Scroll through the social media, especially Instagram, and then you will be like what have you done with your body. There will be actors and models with so well shaped bodies that you will think of your body to be a piece of junk. 

Days before, and actor - I don't remember his name - had put his two pictures on Instagram. In one of the pics, he was brandishing his well shaped body, and in the other body was same like that of a normal person. He wrote that people especially youngmen are misguided through advertisement, but the fact is that we the people, who work for this industry, also have bodies like all of you, and work to return it back in shape only when we have to shoot.

At least he tried to bust the myth, and remove the false facade, but the people who are ardent followeres of these models, have no intention to stop. Youngmen, be it a student or someone else, spend hours in gyms working out. The fact is that the workout itself is not a bad thing, but to spend hours on it is nothing but an act of foolishness. The models and actors who spend their time in gym are paid for it, but the common people get nothing but a reason to drench the thirst of being different.

The way men imagine women, when they see an extra beautiful actress or a model who became miss India, or miss world, or miss universe, and they expect the same beauty from their female partner.  In the same way, women also imagine their male partner to have a well shaped attractive body.

Advertisement agencies do not care about what they are doing. What that really matters to them is money, and nothing else. They do not care about the bad effect they are having on the psychological health of the people. When they compare themselves to what they are witnessing, they start suffering from inferiority complex, and they spend hours and bunch of money to achieve the body they have seen in the advertisement.

Honestly speaking, the advertisement industry works like the porn industry. Whatever you see, is amusing, but you can't implement it in real life. But even if you try to do so, you won't be able to realistically achieve it, because it is not normal, and everything that is not normal will not last for long. The disenchantment will happen sooner or later, but maybe it will be too late, and you have already spent your time and money in something which was not beneficial for you in anyway.