Most every girl will see ads like these throughout their lifetime. The idea of ideology which is "a system of meaning that helps define and explain the world and that makes value judgments about that world" helps one to understand the meaning of these degrading photos pictured above. Everyday, girls are bombarded with magazine ads, commercials, and billboards that relentlessly convey that to be accepted and beautiful, you must be fragile, inferior, stick-thin, tan, tall, toned, and sexy. If you aren't one of those things, the advertisers want you to fix it, most often with their product which will then benefit their profit and do next-to-nothing for desperate teenage girl simply trying to fit in.
Advertisers try to brainwash society and more specifically the youth of the world with their idea of what is "normal" and "politically correct." These pictures are indirectly supposed to "mean" that in order to be accepted, young women must exude sex, and be completely recessive. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and many young girls are resorting to eating disorders that give them a false sense of accomplishment and acceptance in a material world that is basically a house of cards.
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