False of Beauty
Lost in Fantasy
Magazines, movies, and commercials are trying to create an image of what beauty is. Beauty, being defined, means the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. But beauty standards are getting each time higher that even some celebrities can compete. The media portray the standards of beauty as unrealistic. Making us believe that the image of Barbie if he one and when in the real word, becoming an exact Barbie is unreasonable. As kids, we were exposed to that by watching Disney movies. Teaching us that attractive men got beautiful women. Beauty was shown by all the princesses having small, thin noses, and having light skin. All having a slim body and perfect hair.
According to today’s society having a symmetrical face along with perfect hair, eyes, nose and teeth is beauty. As well as having the right curves on the right place, long thin legs joined together by a slim body. For a guy; tall, muscular with a perfect face. If everyone lives by the same standards of beauty, everyone would be ordinary. According to Wolf, a publisher, explained on her book The Beauty Myth how eating disorders rose and cosmetic surgery did so as well. Models were told to loose ten to fifteen pounds to achieve their goals. People seem to want to be the “-est” on everything so they undergo plastic surgery. Beauty standard becomes dangerous when one becomes obsessive, Jocelyn Wieldenstein is a great example. Spending around four million dollars on just plastic surgery.
Perhaps beauty is viewed as having fine physical features but in the eyes of others it’s different. According to Saad, with a Ph.D. in Homo Consumericus, “There are an endless number of cultural definitions of beauty. However, these are largely inconsequential, when compared to evolutionarily relevant metrics” In Ethiopia, wearing a large lip plate is considered attractive and calls the man’s attention on how much the
Magazines, movies, and commercials are trying to create an image of what beauty is. Beauty, being defined, means the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. But beauty standards are getting each time higher that even some celebrities can compete. The media portray the standards of beauty as unrealistic. Making us believe that the image of Barbie if he one and when in the real word, becoming an exact Barbie is unreasonable. As kids, we were exposed to that by watching Disney movies. Teaching us that attractive men got beautiful women. Beauty was shown by all the princesses having small, thin noses, and having light skin. All having a slim body and perfect hair.
According to today’s society having a symmetrical face along with perfect hair, eyes, nose and teeth is beauty. As well as having the right curves on the right place, long thin legs joined together by a slim body. For a guy; tall, muscular with a perfect face. If everyone lives by the same standards of beauty, everyone would be ordinary. According to Wolf, a publisher, explained on her book The Beauty Myth how eating disorders rose and cosmetic surgery did so as well. Models were told to loose ten to fifteen pounds to achieve their goals. People seem to want to be the “-est” on everything so they undergo plastic surgery. Beauty standard becomes dangerous when one becomes obsessive, Jocelyn Wieldenstein is a great example. Spending around four million dollars on just plastic surgery.
Perhaps beauty is viewed as having fine physical features but in the eyes of others it’s different. According to Saad, with a Ph.D. in Homo Consumericus, “There are an endless number of cultural definitions of beauty. However, these are largely inconsequential, when compared to evolutionarily relevant metrics” In Ethiopia, wearing a large lip plate is considered attractive and calls the man’s attention on how much the