Melissa Cohen In American Society today, thin equals beautiful. American women are judged by the way they look. It can define who they are as people. {Who they are or how they see themselves?] To get ahead in this world you have to look the “right” way. [Why? Too cliché.] The standard of what women should look like is very clearly put to them. It is posted on billboards, in the magazines they read, where …showed first 75 words of 1318 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1318 total…on the way she looks or simply because she is a women. When society can understand how much pressure is put upon women to look and act a certain way, and let women know that is “ok” to eat and be smart, then we can advance as a better civilization. [But as your own argument suggests, this is not possible. I’m still curious for you to elaborate why it has to be this way.]