Be-you-tiful
Throughout my life I have had people tell me, “Be-You-tiful”. As I get older I see more items in all forms of media about being skinny and pretty. Media makes it harder to be me, because I want to look similar to celebrities with perfect skin and expensive clothes. There has been moments in my life when I have forgotten about what people have told me - be-you-tiful. Everyone is beautiful in their own unique way, but media believes otherwise. Media is a harmful instrument used to objectify females; it also portrays an ideal body type that negatively influences females to have enmity towards their bodies resulting in excessive amounts of exercise, negative eating behaviors and beliefs and causes females to undergo psychological …show more content…
A common form of this harassment is sexual objectification. According to Emma Rooney, there are two types of sexual objectification. First, interpersonal interactions; meaning the unwelcome conduct of sexual harassment and body evaluation. The most known example of this is catcalling. These actions are recognized as microaggressions, which is a “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities (often unconscious and unintentional) that communicate hostile, derogatory or invalidating messages” (Rooney). The second is active and passive consumption of multimedia. Advertisements, television shows, movies, comic books and pornography all show some type of sexually objectifying images of women. “These two main avenues of exposure create a continuous stream of sexually objectifying experience and images” (Rooney). Girls, teenagers, women; they are all being bombarded with a “continuous stream” of illusions which depict impossibly perfect women. In today’s world the word respect is extremely uncommon and has little to no importance in most people’s minds. Females of all ages are disrespected in public, online, in magazines and on …show more content…
In the present time, physical beauty is most important. Women cannot be themselves; instead, they have to look like someone else. Colbie Caillat's song, “Try” is about a girl who is trying to be what the world wants her to be; this girl needs to put makeup on, run the extra mile and keep it slim so the world will like her. Caillat then goes on to tell girls they do not have to try to be what the world (media) wants them to be. She then sings about not having to “bend until you break” and ends her song
Throughout my life I have had people tell me, “Be-You-tiful”. As I get older I see more items in all forms of media about being skinny and pretty. Media makes it harder to be me, because I want to look similar to celebrities with perfect skin and expensive clothes. There has been moments in my life when I have forgotten about what people have told me - be-you-tiful. Everyone is beautiful in their own unique way, but media believes otherwise. Media is a harmful instrument used to objectify females; it also portrays an ideal body type that negatively influences females to have enmity towards their bodies resulting in excessive amounts of exercise, negative eating behaviors and beliefs and causes females to undergo psychological …show more content…
A common form of this harassment is sexual objectification. According to Emma Rooney, there are two types of sexual objectification. First, interpersonal interactions; meaning the unwelcome conduct of sexual harassment and body evaluation. The most known example of this is catcalling. These actions are recognized as microaggressions, which is a “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities (often unconscious and unintentional) that communicate hostile, derogatory or invalidating messages” (Rooney). The second is active and passive consumption of multimedia. Advertisements, television shows, movies, comic books and pornography all show some type of sexually objectifying images of women. “These two main avenues of exposure create a continuous stream of sexually objectifying experience and images” (Rooney). Girls, teenagers, women; they are all being bombarded with a “continuous stream” of illusions which depict impossibly perfect women. In today’s world the word respect is extremely uncommon and has little to no importance in most people’s minds. Females of all ages are disrespected in public, online, in magazines and on …show more content…
In the present time, physical beauty is most important. Women cannot be themselves; instead, they have to look like someone else. Colbie Caillat's song, “Try” is about a girl who is trying to be what the world wants her to be; this girl needs to put makeup on, run the extra mile and keep it slim so the world will like her. Caillat then goes on to tell girls they do not have to try to be what the world (media) wants them to be. She then sings about not having to “bend until you break” and ends her song