How does this image represent John Stuart Mill's ideas of the dangers of popular opinion and Tyranny of the Majority?
In this image, shown a group of followers who are jumping off the edge. It represents Mill’s idea of dangers of popular opinion and tyranny of Majority, because if one person can manipulate a person to follow and jump off the edge than, that person can also influences more followers to follow his lead and do as told.
Use one example from contemporary American society to support your point
One of the example from contemporary American society is…
An example of contemporary American society of popular opinion is women having to be skinny. It is a danger sign for young girls to be skinny; because society has no room for “fat girls”. All girls need to be a Barbie perfect figure because; when watching television all we see are skinny, flat stomach, beauty girls, tall girls, and size 4 that consider the perfect shape. Although, if we do see fat girls on television they are the outsider, they are called names, they are ugly, they are made fun of because of their weight and shape. Also size 6 is considered too big to fit into the “Skinny” world. We are teaching young girls that skinny are the shape to be, and being fat is not. Media is an easy target for young teen to learn, the powerful message of being thin is beautiful and overweight is not.
3 comments:
I agree with you, I think that their is a big pressure with society to be thin and we need to change that. We shouldn't be encouraging adolescents to be thin, we should encourage them to be healthy. You can still be beautiful if you are bigger than a size 6.
I agree with this 100%.. I believe this is a "dangerous" idea that is out there, and I am actually writing my paper on this
We have such a screwed up idea of what constitutes beauty that it has screwed up the minds of thousands of young girls who don't fit the "ideal" body size and type.
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