So most of the time ideals and the negativity is often peer or gender group pressure amplified or created or both by what the media has normalized to be well…the norm. However i think most teenagers know this certainly in Australia this is well known amongst young women that the images are unrealistic but that doesn’t stop them idolising them. However humans tend to aim for what they think to be perfection. Nowadays the statue of the goddess of love and lust would probably be seen as slightly fat although it close to the UK Average. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Aphrodite_Syracuse.jpg there are many examples of this, none to any surprise however.

Though nowadays there’s also the problem of early sexification of girls.

Though being a guy isn’t much better there
s plenty of pressure from women for the “ideal man”

In short. Big Society is a bi-atch and unfortunately i don’t see it getting fixed any time soon. (though i rather the western society to the middle east society but that’s like choosing between a punch to the face or 5 punches to the face). Maybe just maybe further education may do something. The world hasn’t gotten much wiser for a long long time though.