Thursday, October 21, 2010
Beauty in America
In class today we looked at how women and girls are marketed at to look "beautiful". The media and marketing firms of companies have convinced our young girls what beauty is. "Beauty" means you are unrealistically thin, covered in make up, perfect white teeth, etc. Girls think they need to me perfect. They are given a goal that is impossible to obtain. It's wrong. Completely wrong. Beauty is subjective and should be based off physical appearance but more importantly, inner-beauty. No one person can decide what beauty is, especially a marketing firm. These unobtainable goals lead to psychological problems for these young girls. Parents need to start teaching their children at a young age that all the magazines and commercials are fake and are not active representations of what they should stride for. And on a side note, the media and marketing companies deserve blame but the models who participate in these shoots and allow themselves to be edited and photoshopped.
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I agree that parents need to take action and stop their kids from watching so many commercials and reading so many biased magazines. This is just such a huge problem with America's youth.
ReplyDeleteAnother way to talk about it is - beauty is a social construction. That is, each society creates it's own idea of what is beautiful. If we can see this dynamic, maybe we can separate from it and be okay with who we are, leaving society out of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree this perception that to be a true woman you have to have an unhealthy waistline, and be seductive brings no good. I also agree that parents should do their part to reduce this media inspired message.
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