The Scientific Determinations of Beauty
What is Beauty? Beauty can be seen differently by every single person in the world. Though people see beauty differently there are specific features the world universally sees as beautiful. There are a few scientific determinants of how attractive a person is and the society and culture a person lives in can contribute to how one person perceives beauty. To determine a person’s beauty it is up to someone to decide what the most important feature of a person is. A person may believe someone’s eyes or lips can make them beautiful, another person can think the way a person carries themselves can be beautiful. Beauty can depend on personality features as well as physical features. Through the many characteristics of a person our media portrays one characteristic to be deemed the most important. The way our media views beauty has one main factor. Our media perceives beauty as being thin, skinny, lean, scrawny and so on. Whichever of these words you choose to describe it as our media deems the most important factor of a person’s attractiveness as being at a lower weight than the average person.
The media advertises this factor in almost every TV show, commercial, and magazine. As Laura Fraser reports for FAIR, which is a national media watch group, overweight people are not shown on TV, it is only the thin people that are shown. “On television, for the most part, fat people are as invisible as in fashion magazines.” As Fraser reported it shows in real life. In almost all shampoo commercials and car advertisements the females as well as males in them are almost always fit or very skinny. This is causing our society to see people we look up to on TV as all thin and that we should as well. Not only do the TV shows and commercials tell your unconscious mind that people should be skinny some commercials and advertisements with no shame push products to make you rapidly lose weight. All generations of males and females are getting the message that everyone should be
The media advertises this factor in almost every TV show, commercial, and magazine. As Laura Fraser reports for FAIR, which is a national media watch group, overweight people are not shown on TV, it is only the thin people that are shown. “On television, for the most part, fat people are as invisible as in fashion magazines.” As Fraser reported it shows in real life. In almost all shampoo commercials and car advertisements the females as well as males in them are almost always fit or very skinny. This is causing our society to see people we look up to on TV as all thin and that we should as well. Not only do the TV shows and commercials tell your unconscious mind that people should be skinny some commercials and advertisements with no shame push products to make you rapidly lose weight. All generations of males and females are getting the message that everyone should be
Cited: Fisher, Maryanne and Voracek, Martin. “The Shape of Beauty.” Nih.gov. NCBI, 2006. Web. 28 Jan. 2012 Fraser, Laura. “Fear of Fat.” Fair.org. May First Technology Collective, August 1997. Web. 28 Jan. 2012