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Entertainment programs, films, music, platforms, and applications help us forge our identities, sense of self, and who we want to be. They teach us how to dress, look, interact, and consume. We learn who has power and who does not, who has followers and who does not. The websites and media we frequent also influence our sense of ethnicity and race, gender, and class.

Reflect on This: Beauty Standards and Dying to Be Thin

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In “The Girl Who Could Never Be Thin Enough: One Family’s Tragedy,” we learn about Stacy Asbury, a teenager suffering from anorexia nervosa who sadly succumbed to the disorder. Her father, Tom, was left heartbroken at his inability to help his daughter overcome its ravages. Approximately 100,000 people, both female and male, but predominantly female, have this disorder. Because of a desire to be thin and the distorted images they have of their own bodies, 3 to 5 percent of sufferers starve and exercise themselves to death, as Stacy did.