Pressure on girls for perfect body 'worse than ever', says Orbach

This is a bunch of poop. Most girls put pressure on themselves and compete with other girls in appearance.

"It was a terrible period, but this is a much worse period, because women are allowed and are in all jobs, but they still have to look like dolls when they are going to their jobs and they still have to emotionally look after everyone at work

The whole article & she doesn't point to any sort of "solutions"...……..as others above have said women are their own worst enemies, if any of this is happening to them, they are primarily doing it to themselves, so need to find their own solutions.

The only bit in the article above I worry about was the apps targeting kids, if those are around that isn't good.

As for the rest while I am fine with society helping society, foremost people need to take care of themselves.

And women still having to emotionally look after everyone at work...……..what the …..sorry I call BS on that one!!!

Hmmmmm.....  This article is a little bit ethnocentric.   Different cultures and societies around the world have a different ideal of what a desirable or even perfect woman's body shape is.  she is focused on skinniness and slimness but that isn't what everyone wants.

Women(...) still have to look like dolls when they are going to their jobs and they still have to emotionally look after everyone at work."

Lol. And some ppl still buy/read/believe such drivel!

Psych professionals like Orbach who've been spruiking bs about men/women relationships for decades are partly to blame for the current situation. They've created a generation of self entitled ppl who dissect & over analyse everything/everyone And no longer know how to act spontaneously or think for themselves.

She added: "If you just dropped in on any conversation, the amount of mental space that people take up with what they're eating, what they're not eating, their yoga routine, is expressive of the level of distress in our society.

Naaa, just water cooler convos, nothing more nothing less.

Where is this pressure coming from? It isn't us guys doing it. Most men are happy a woman says yes far more than her appearance. Of course each country is different but America this is ridiculous as everything in America is biased for women. Women outnunber men, more women are employed, more women drive, more women graduate college than men. Schools, are designed to teach girls not boys. Socialist justice effectively puts men in jail for any accusation of insensitivity to women. So a male somehow disparaging a womans appearance to the point if causing the effect in this article, would end up sued or fired or worse. Girls and women need to lighten up.

As the other posters say, a lot of this pressure is from other women.

Apparently studies done on dating apps suggest that men rate the appearance/body shape of the average woman far higher than women rate the average man. Taken together, these suggest that it is women who need educating, not men. Love Island's target audience is also "female".

https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/programmes/programme-planner/love-island

Just to show that things may not be that much better for men, it sounds like there are hundreds of thousands of UK males on steriods for looks.

http://www.menshealth.co.uk/healthy/why-a-million-brits-use-steroids-for-looks-not-sport

Orbach calls out all these evil doers:

Oppressive social media-driven world

Online beauty influencers

A host of industries

Apple, Google and Amazon

Reality television shows such as "Love Island"

The food industry

The modern "gig economy"

Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Reagan

just out of curiousity, what does the perfect body look like? who is an example of (near) perfection?

The answer to the question posted above is to be found in anime.

Don't wish for pressure to go away, instead educate girls, to have self esteem, don't eat too much sugar, exercise, live a healthy life, physically and mentally.

Don't give up! It is achievable! Lol

Si, se puede!

There is tremendous pressure on girls from all media sectors, and most of it is destructive. Personally I admire "non-perfect" girls who have a physical as well as mental personality - i.e. non-perfect.

It's said that the sign of beauty is facial and body symmetry. That's classical beauty.

We should enjoy and rejoice in the beauty of variation of the human form.

I have a daughter and 5 grandaughters who follow this philosophy, and are true to themselves, not to the commercial "image god".

Girls and young women are under more pressure than ever to achieve the perfect body in an oppressive social media-driven world

Obviously its not doing much when you take in the amount of obesity amongst Western women