Over the weekend I watched the new movie Escape Room: Tournament of Champions with my younger sister and two cousins. The movie portrayed six characters trapped in extreme cases fighting to solve clues and survive. Innocent players were being electrocuted to death, showered with acid rain, and pulled under sand dunes. In other words, they were placed in impossible, extreme, and haunting scenarios.
While watching the movie, one of my cousins joked, “I bet if I was stuck in the escape room, I would lose a lot of weight.” Although she was just joking lightheartedly and had no special meaning in the sentence, just the fact that that was the first thing she thought of is heartbreaking. People are dying in the worst possible ways, and why are we wishing we were them just so we can lose weight? Since when has being trapped in extreme escape rooms correlated with losing weight?
This is how much society has blinded young girls. We are at a point where everything in life somehow correlates back to body image. Societal influences have become so extreme that our natural, normal reactions are about weight. Will we ever be able to change this? Will I ever be able to change this for myself?