Absolutely. We live in an increasingly image-oriented, visual culture where our identities in many ways get reduced to our physical identity, especially when we're in adolescence where looks and appearance become something that's of primary importance.
We actively work to construct our identities through Facebook and through posting images of ourselves. So living in this extremely visual society where people construct their identities around how they look and how they appear.... Added on to that is the fact that girls and young women are positioned as the objects of the gaze, and that we're meant to focus on our image and to see that as a primarily important aspect of who we are. That has exacerbated the problem.
There are studies showing that models have become thinner and thinner. There are famous studies demonstrating that over the past 30 or 40 years. Girls and women are also confronted with more and more emaciated images of beauty.
Even beyond objectification, psychologists are now talking about sexualization, which is a kind of hyper-objectification of girls and young women, where girls and young women are now meant to create a very sexy image. It's not only one that should be attractive and thin but now has to be one that's overtly sexual.