Petras\’ Corner

Reading “Struggling for Perfection” was a great example of a cause and effect essay. Women see the magazines and the images and think they need to be just like that. Its just like how we were talking about barbie in class a few weeks ago, women see the cute skinny blonde barbie, and want to be her.

The essay says that 5 percent of women will develop a full-fledged eating disorder, while 15 percent have “substantially disordered eating. I had no idea that the numbers were so high!