What's Beautiful

I just got thinking after our class about what is considered beautiful or pretty. We live in a society where beauty is defined for us. It's never beautiful to be fat in our culture. For us beauty = skinny, let me rephrase that, stick skinny BUT have nice boobs and butts. Unless you're a model if you're skinny but have no butt or boobs, you're considered decent. It's sad to admit that our society view women in this light. It's amazing how we became to accept this and say this is okay. It gets worse when models are not pretty or skinny enough. Two years ago I had a write a paper about models and their eating disorder problems. It was so shocking how many of them actually suffer from things like anorexia and bulimia. It's not the girls but the industry that makes them this way indirectly. Some designers even said that Heidi Klum is too "fat" to model. When was Heidi Klum fat especially after having two children. So no wonder the girls in the modeling industry can't enjoy a meal and think that it's the enemy. Another shocking aspect of the industry is how they use their technology. Here when I say "their" technology, I mean photoshoping. No matter how pretty or perfect a model may look, those photographs go through photoshop. There the editors, make things bigger, make some other things smaller, and so on and so forth. I think a great example of this is the Dove Evolution commercial. It basically shows a model's final photograph going under "reconstruction." It's so sad that our natural beauty is never enough. Since models are retouched, how would the rest of the women feel about themselves? The media definitely plays a huge role and manipulates women to feel like they are not beautiful enough. I really think we should change this perspective and not fall into their trap.

link to the Dove commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U or just youtube Dove Evolution