Molly's Vox Pop

The speaker discusses feeling pressure at Marquette to meet certain body image standards, especially being in a sorority. She mentions feeling uncomfortable with her body type and hearing others talk about needing to lose weight or discussing their appearance, creating pressure to look a certain way. This pressure is evident in conversations at the gym and in various social settings. As a student at Marquette, do you ever feel a pressure to look a certain way and do you notice anyone talking about issues they're having with their body image or needing to lose weight or anything like that? Yeah, I feel like definitely just wherever you are there's always a certain aspect where you can feel uncomfortable just with how your body type. Being in a sorority, I feel like I'm not purposeful at all, just I feel like I get the different pressures just depending on how my stomach, my arms, my legs may look. You can hear it sometimes at the gym, girls talking just about how they may look, so there definitely is pressure just to look a certain way sometimes.