Transcripts For DW DocFilm 20240713

Women are dissatisfied with their bodies this is nothing new but young women have become more and more in secure since the advent of social media something is always too big too small too thin too fast too little too short term or long or too much. On instagram and platforms like it those who are judged to be the most beautiful are rewarded with the most likes it motors and clicks hours spent on mobile phones fuel mutual comparisons and evaluations young women tend to focus a lot on what they are not or do not have and they feel inadequate. We cannot escape the power of images against the course thats causing. Security especially among women and young girls it affects men too but i think with all these pictures social media are causing people to feel more insecure. In was in our society you can only be too thin or too fat you can never fit in this thing to me i feel beautiful the way i am now i feel comfortable charming and attractive as much as ever being a woman isnt d. C. Pressure on women is also high because the female body has been central to the formation of womens identity for centuries almost that even today its been from on these as this is kind ons noise to mean its not a completely new phenomenon of course but social media has certainly amplified the issue if you will. Leave you or your Minority Group were dealing with young people who arent fully settled in their identity yet things have a particularly strong effect on them. But im going to stay i think were facing a real problem and there is no simple solution. As youre making money i havent always felt comfortable in my body but ive always been very interested in fashion. I used to pay a lot of attention to the media medium fix it and i bought into its ideal of beauty my body just never fit into that mold. And was the bus. Was he on with real people compare themselves with these norms most of them fall short. And think theyre not beautiful enough or not fin for not toned enough or not this enough or not that enough. Said about him finn. Because the whole social media hype started on platforms like Instagram People started thinking not only supermodels look that way but normal girls too. So on and off. So. My. Instagram used instagram for thats the inspiration. For it i looked at a lot of photos of extremely slim models theres even a hash tag. That fits all about very skinny people posting pictures of themselves to encourage others to lose even more weight to work out even more and to eat even less. Wake up in the morning and the 1st thing i do was look at pictures of thin models on instagram. They werent just models they were also normal girls just normal girls with anorexia. Ahead of me that if a suit of perfection to fit an ideal image can become destructive. System then my behavior becomes compulsive i feel forced to make myself prettier to improve myself just so many speak of an inner voice some even called it a dictator who forbids them to do things and for pete that is this kid is no longer a choice but in order to follow that song most the image which. Is a forked beast and many young people respond to that was depression this will be forced to be. Conscious is fed with all these messages. And that settles into their thoughts always its like a sediment of sadness because they cant achieve what they desire. Seem to be at. The end of the one so i spent the night on the bathroom floor because it had floor heating and i was freezing so i had no strength left. Right it kind of sad that my hair was falling out. Of the house that has nothing to do with beauty of feeling good. You dont feel good just because youre really skinny your entire quality of life suffers from being that thin you can read the names for it it doesnt. Happen i wouldnt eat anything for months only when i felt dizzy thats when i realized i couldnt do this anymore something had to change i had to go to therapy. Most of us and i miss most and it doesnt. The facade and the surety that arent supposed to come any attempts to conform to beauty ideals a bound to fail when i work with my patients i tell them that if my image of myself isnt correct then i dont need to change myself to fit that image i need to adapt my image to fit my personality these girls are trying to fit their self image and if that doesnt work its because that image is too far removed from reality. I started following body positive influencers on social media instead and deleted a lot of super waves from my instagram feed. d before people seen if you were female role models are very important especially for young girls the question is which ones do i choose do i choose people who have beautiful and successful like beyonce or madonna they might seem out of reach or do i choose role models closer to me who are more attainable and who can inspire me to realize more of who i really am for any of us who are income income yet illusion is that now instagram helps me feel more comfortable with myself now i follow a lot of people who have the same body type as i do or are plus size. It helps to see their photos and see how pretty they are and to know they have a similar builders mine and are still attractive. Then i look in the mirror and feel beautiful again its been going for to touch. On. Strong is the new skinny fitness is booming and no longer just for men the internet use teaming with female fitness models who encourage other women to reach peak results what it takes they say is control and discipline. Is good in my school mentioned see most people are doing pretty well i know that means storing fat for harder times isnt considered attractive and thats where this beauty standard comes from these diseases for most people being skinny isnt their natural state but the product of hard work and especially given the temptations of our modern Abundant Society where we can consume calories as often as we like staying slim is associated with effort and stress which makes it more of a status symbol. Which clothes for. Too long this is an odd start to see. My add to my day to day life as a bikini athlete includes a lot of training of course i workout almost every day. Or 2 just to get more important though is getting the right nutrition in between. That means i always have to plan my meals i cant just go somewhere for a day without having cooked in advance. So if i know im going to be out the next day i have to buy and prepare everything the evening before and in addition i still have a lot to do on social media and i also make my youth. Videos myself many of you tube c. D. s say well. I was never that skinny look at that. Photo of. This kid just to mention you want to mind a shrunk no it is many people think that being thin is really important so this is my doubt that i think fitness has become the guiding principle for a good body fitness because if i need for especially for young woman because fitness is an ideal a norm that goes far beyond physical exercise found very fit for fun fit for work that for life fit for sex fit for everything and that actually has a strong relation to the theory of evolution survival of the fittest which feeds back into the concept of competition and success. In how much can you tell me to comply but i think i have some competitions coming up and that means im on a diet i have to eat less calories than i burn and well i eat really healthy. And he soon. He says. Im far is most of what you are really motivated and you still have a lot of calories and with time your calories drop as your body adapts and things become more and more difficult as you must be its hard for women to maintain a low body fat percentage. Hard all this being so maybe hell be assumptions and it gets really tough my deficit is at its lowest and i cant eat a lot. Of course i get very hungry at times and that affects my mood oh so part of the small today is monday and ive got 6 days left thanks im feeling really down today. Already. Im so mad. And i dont even know why. I feel like crying and i dont know why i somehow managed to force myself through my leg training and i did my cardio workout its been reached im not even hungry thats how angry i am but im going to eat a little now anyway because i still have to take in a fair bit of protein to feed i was off. You know you could sing the moves for i would say this kind of a version to pleasure is jew to an intense body cult its your minds response to our bodies objectification and even as of in the. T. V. And when we start seeing our bodies as little more than objects things that we have no loving relation to or degrade them to tools to perform better to be better to be special to be admired. Then we are ultimately separating ourselves from our emotions in an. Incident from. Woody whats your my motivation is to keep Getting Better i dont compare myself to others i just want to improve myself in the. Very same. Scripture kind of work and see you in a way theres no upper limit to fitness you can always get fitter and that logic can perpetuate itself into infinity and one and hope you. Can soak all the work i do on my body pays off copious cabinets headwall i think there was a time when Natural Beauty was more desirable but it seems like we departed from that a long time ago i mean again its weird when these days we prefer to acknowledge people who have invested a lot of work maybe even had an operation or have stuck to a strict diet and exercise the last of us who have monitored and measured and worked hard on themselves to help. Me its all about pride i go up there in my high heels youre standing there youve worked hard for this moment and now you get to show it off to meet its a moment of pure happiness. I do so many angels and. This people of the extreme i have to admit without a trace of envy that some people achieve really impressive results with their bodies. Of setting up of the in the who are actually spends that much time energy and money on their body can change it quite a lot but this ideal of it ever being possible to reach a state of permanency or that im ever done working and can be happy i dont think that ever happens and i believe that is what keeps us stuck in this rat race loveliest. Anything we can learn from having 200 grams of chicken breast with bell peppers and red onions. Every. Quarter size 0 mannequins in the shop windows if they were real women their big screen under white almost all male dummies on the other hand would weigh about average why hold women to different standards. The militia of its imported from masculinity is symbolically associated with reason rationality and the shaping of the world and of politics well good for. Women are associated more with sensuality irrationality theyre supposedly closer to nature and more emotional high she does so i get up at a should also perhaps be more at home responsible for housework all this is expressed in these pictures where girls and women are to be desired theyre expected to be objects of desire what they say and do is less interesting and i believe social media is giving new rise to this imbalance here people are compared rated and shamed and i must add there is a remarkable amount of shaming rituals on social media this guidance which i made an old. Obviously she most highly of. This anxiety its almost business as usual to be attacked as a woman if your voice your opinion the readers in my case its mostly male readers wont respond with arguments theyll say youre ugly youre fat nobody would want to screw you anyway they immediately make it about my gender and my body and cup i. Was busy at one station is full for me we have been observing a massive amount of denigration of women in the social media insults threats violent speech to say the least because going from phone it was 6 when the t. V. Aim is to insult them. To devalue their femininity. And to devalue their person with sexualizing remarks it is a 6 when easier to. Tax a common thought the worst comment i ever received was your subhuman why dont you become a stripper or a hooker and hang yourself and there are other people who right get yourself sterilized or your room should be cut out or id like to bang you so you stop writing such nonsense or youre stupid youre retarded you must suck in bed with your fat ass in bed all these things have nothing to do with my work. Is tied off to i often share screen shots of comments like that its important to me to see that i have allies who think its just as bad as i do just that also i can remind myself that not everyones thinks this way i mention things in this key there are actually plenty of people with a positive mindset and thats easy to forget that often when you read such malicious comments. I think its because the users can stay anonymous. That way its easier to vomit your opinion or fart on to the web and then move on. Down back to my guns all of this is hurting most of the time its plain massaging for tea when you look at all these hateful posts and the sheer amount of them you can see there 5 people who think that girls and women have already taken over the world how to he. Think girls and women a much better off the men is that theyre taking everything away from men and that theyre better educated that theyre already ahead in economics and politics goes for the numbers dont support these claims but thats what they fantasize you heard so. I think social media is like a couple like barbie and ken and the fake perfect smooth no rough edges. Skin probably white teeth full sensual lips so dr if. The feminine stereotype stares at us like is sold as close to women in commercials on doomed to flawlessness and those sold as sex objects the formula for success sex sells seems to apply particularly to female bodies who are the women behind these beautified masks i was kind of wanted a live in. The next summer binge not long its last summer i moved to london i was on i went out one evening and was introduced to several people. One of them was a manager an agent Something Like that goes on dad he said hed help me get jobs to improve my image from it in kind. And bam one of a few months ago i received a Whatsapp Message asking me to have dinner with a very famous actor because i was offered several 1000 euros for 2 hours command when i asked and he said i had to be ok with natural intimacy. Natch that was when i realized this couldnt be normal i said i was sorry that i wasnt an escort i was a model. Esquire this finn and model. Would of course act as i was told lots of top models did it was not that it was normal and that they were making millions. That shocked me he tried to convince me that you couldnt get anywhere if you dont accept office like that and. Being a really not only means being successful. It can also lead to constant sexual harassment. And by the way thats also the case for less pretty women. As we all know sexuality has fairly little to do with appearance. And more to do with dominance and Power Dynamics than to give. Her all that chance im often asked to take off my top or bra because they say its in the way of my portrait. Which always makes me wonder why is my bra in the way if theyre taking a picture of my face ive also had them try to help me on dress as if it were the most normal thing in the world i dont agree with that. The problem is many agencies are aware of it and just dont care whos. Not on it so before moving to london i had visited an agency in munich and they told me my hips were too wide for the London Fashion week action week must observe to me. There was nothing there i was just skin and bones but you can get so hung up on stuff like that next there. Werent enough documents it makes you wonder whats gone wrong with his industry. You have to question everything so when i look at how my photos are taken its all staged nothings real and when i see pictures from my modeling campaigns all i can tell is that its not many hours of makeup styling and editing make out styling my know what goes on behind the scenes and that includes same goes for myself is i used to do a lot of work on myself is when i look at them today i hardly recognize myself and lots of people follow these perfect instagram pages because its like a dream in a world worth pursuing and its home is this is and the very. Thing is we cant pursue it because it doesnt exist exist yet. Middle of august himself its now im more interested in the edited pictures its important to me and my followers that i show more real photos. In this all they appreciate that. My man in my heart is the pages that really touch photos should point out that its not real and im not sure that these people fully realize what kind of impact it can have reduced and what it does to young people its very dangerous and i think its a crucial topic that isnt being discussed enough in our society. The need to mitigate the effects of photoshop and beauty if we can call that all we have to do is look different very few photo manipulations have to be marked as such as that might actually help. But we cant forget that the picture still speaks louder than the label. In the age of social media not even a Makeup Artist is enough to ciccio a way to ideal looks. Every image is digitally edited it beauty apps on our smartphones make the opportunities for modeling boundless we can make our eyes bigger than our noses smaller our lips fuller bones higher our faces lino our skin more perfect all of the swipe of a finger all the click of a mouse our digital optimized solves sell better than our edited so those. Industries new advertisers are socalled influencers. You can begin to turn game on and i pity you. With over 300000 instagram followers influencer janie has more subscribers than some daily newspapers Companies Use internet stars like her to advertise products and make lots of money jayney cant afford to look anything but flawless. Instagram is included Jack Instagram is a work of art i do it to keep up with people of course i edit my pictures by pimples or retouched but if i think about it and try to think of a good reason for it then its different than just wanting to fit in for example i used to have very bad acne if that has been happening and people didnt care why i added. They just wrote me off as someone who didnt take care of herself them big ass he can inflict. That tradition i guess when if it gets worse i cover up my pimples its self defense as soon as you dont make Society Standards you have to put up with people looking at you sideways office day no matter how hard i pushed the idea of being yourself and loving yourself for who you are it still felt too risky because i have a fairly wide audience. Im still afraid i bought a ring light and sat far away from the camera in my videos so that you couldnt see my acne and one way or another it still gets to you you feel boxed into a corner and wonder am i really any different to the rest. But isnt knowing me dealing with these new media that weve noticed that were moving away from looking at other peoples faces and rating them as a pretty very pretty average viewer for want to give to seeing our own faces being critiqued because it does it was that something we had to deal with much less in the past few feet beneath off talked to should be feedback because we get feedback when people told us we look good on some days or not so good on others as indeed often at the risk of constantly being judged by others and perhaps even groups of others are compared to them maybe putting the wrong kind of pressure on young people who are exposed to that you mention the deemster initials because its. Kemah firestone and this if i were to go without makeup and do a video without my do you i could imagine there would be some people who find it very positive this is and i said not on the other hand was it if i couldnt do it in a long run and said can we should we have this a group of dark kind of i wouldnt fit the mold meaning i wouldnt be able to keep working with the companies i do and when the name and i bet in kind then yeah. Right. If youre talking thats just i believe this obsession with numbers is linked to our capitalist society this is what its all about counting measuring about making more money about gaining more attention in social media that translates into more clicks more lines i find this kind of quantification very problematic because it didnt dangerous quality. In charged so this is the size medium because i like the loose fit better. Its got a cut out here so you can wear a colorful brawler or a bikini underneath and itll show i bet its pretty comfortable when im travelling i combine it with. Its like the. Yeah it got me this is and this from tim i dont think it would work any other way the economy and the business that work with people like that dont benefit from you being happy with yourself then there wouldnt be any idealistic instagram. Gives. It is this instagram. Need to be moving to get a force that earn money with it and then we go along with it even though we may not want to. See. Justice religion needs you to believe the Advertising Industry needs dissatisfied customers with a longing was seen goal to thank god happiness beauty and love are all things that could last forever. Or they could be taken away in the blink of an eye or 2 and a half this constant consumption oriented tampering with our bodies is supposed to remind us of that and thats how the market for these products is developed. These are put. Industries on the stoppable it keeps creating new trends no expense or pain is spent to attain instead of wealthy perfection. Hes going to. Begin to talk. This is a beautiful. Drive to get good workers are. Going to talk. To. Them because there are several counter movements and various trends to show more natural bodies that havent been educated. The dog campaign for example but i think its a marketing ploy even brands that advertise with more natural female bodies still selling something couple of them for me this would have. Needed as it goes if its perfectly possible to display all this diversity as they call it in the media. That muddies sweaty bodies big small gay trends nish be neither the tongues we can show all kinds of bodies along with the whole variety or making them beautiful or sexy or whatever else. With uniformity in with individuality we want more women who swim against the current women who are confident about stepping into the spotlight women who are proud of their bodies rebels who arent afraid to show what they can do women who courageously stand up to assault and oppression. Well if this all too far all they turn then we start filing for they want to whats going on there they talk in full to all put off these are threats because its often a 2nd option thought mark against the red ballast tanks the head the lot to get you on bob or staying stuck during a cache and fresh all fresh and you get the last burn that the high does that she was doing for all doesnt obviously get thats wrong do not also good for you as they wish to or you have been this far in this not to want to discover this to know what youre up the chronic this is britches this isnt much of this is just isnt this live a feminist. Tell you these threats and lets try from grants for student that. As a businessman not only i took a long time for me to find my role in society and as a woman in the hip hop scene i used to record at the youth center and there was a park you had to walk through to get there. There were people sitting there who saw me. Just always really baggy pants back then and theyd criticize them to death. I was so stubborn i kept telling myself theyd understand one day. Except me and tells me you are so cool the way you are that i like myself but if im criticized all the time when youre 1415 you start asking yourself things like whether or not youre pretty if you dont find validation things can get problematic and you can get stuck in an eternal battle with yourself. Im not going to. Think it. Was going to be looking. To see. The moon isnt doesnt just mean your hair is short i know a lot of women with headscarves kurdish turkish series iranian iraqi women who are very strong and all wear a headscarf that doesnt mean theyre all pressed or that theyre meek role models my mother wears a headscarf and drives a mercedes. And she has enormous strength. Feminism in any way he says that this image wouldnt fit into feminism right now but it does they just dont portray it i find social media and the image of women problematic because social media is our 2nd. Public space we spend more time there than in real life and thats where our friends are our environment our home holes are this internet and its important to build good real social relationships that requires investing a lot of energy in friendships and good relationships with your parents and teachers it also means really experiencing something meaningful in real life developing hobbies exploring interests beyond the media i could use the media as a source of information or to chat with my friends but i shouldnt necessarily enter a space so huge i cant keep an overview anymore and if i do i should at least do it carefully and be more aware of how much of myself i allow into that space. For parker the most often were all responsible if we want to change things and everyone has to work for it and even when i want to show questionable pictures i dont because i have a responsibility for the if i post a problematic picture and 5 people take it as an example then thats my doing this is them throughout the show on the phone with them and this is mine if im to. Live in them and this social we live in a society thats racked with constant in are under arrest and my mother said she didnt know what that felt like because social media pictures didnt exist back then they did differently i believe this inner education also has a lot to do with the fact that we all struggle with ourselves we always want to change ourselves to adapt to these images we need new pictures. Check. One of them be able to speak i dont yell in the fall often because we align our tastes and our beauty standards with those of the people we know there is a solution to this fatal new media trend that pressures are some certain areas and causes a stress. Noir media the. Fall of the people we know will realize they generally dont correspond to any ideal but are more varied i think and mine and these i mean we dont know that they control us but theyre actually quite interesting and fun to talk to us and laugh with and with in scripts. Was. Saying in turkish they will not feed the baby unless a crisis. We need to cry we need to talk we need to speak up and say what we want. Because if we dont they think were fine its going to school. Stuff. We can a lot of things too i cant say i feel strong everywhere there are things where i have a hard time and there are things that make me feel strong. Rap is where i get my strength every woman has something inside her where she can draw strength from i dont mean materially but in yourself. Psychological strain actually arises when i think im not important enough not interesting enough not competent enough thats when i try to become somebody im not and thats how the tragedy begins. This thing to me just before the way i am now i feel comfortable with who i am charming and attractive. And i might also look nice in different clothes and with a different image and style maybe id be pretty then too but id never be happy because that wouldnt be me. Because that will suit. My needs of the media undeclared dont think its helpful to vilify the media and our bodies as if it were some mean enslavement or submission. It might seem but its also something we enjoy and its in our nature to like dressing up and putting on makeup the question is how can we handle it in a way that self determined and beneficial to us. Guns fired we have a completely driven by others but i am never completely self determined it would make the most sense to strike a balance between the 2 i want young women to be able to make the rules themselves to a certain degree. To which this cannot afford to talk about it and to look out for one another in your peer groups. Work i still believe in the strength of our young generation and i believe they can support each other and the subsequent. Existence of as long as i live on this planet i live in this body and it needs my care i am infinitely grateful for it for carrying me through life and making everything available we need food for our soul in the sense of emotional care that always means having a. Myself. There are no easy tricks those who were found and outer beauty has made a huge step but beauty is skin deep it comes from within. Its mark. On the race track reserve. The Perfect Place to test those high powered vehicle. 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