Beauty
Beauty has been a socially constructed concept that has been around since the beginning of time. We set these ideals of what has to be perfect, according to society, and what is socially unacceptable. If a woman happens to be over a certain weight, she is fat according to society. We have put pressure on each other throughout the years and it has harmful effects to the people around us. Setting certain beauty standards that people feel they need to follow is going to hurt not only this generation, but generations to follow.
Having certain advertisements in mainstream media and the magazine covers that we see when we take a trip to the grocery store all have an effect on how we see one another. When you pick up a magazine, you’ll mostly …show more content…
In the 1950s, they had advertisements to be “curvy”. Now, we have advertisements to be “skinny”. We have taken a completely different angle in the modern world. If we were living in the 1950s and the models of today’s world walked in the the same room as the models of the 50s, the models that we see today would have been judged and looked at like we look at people who are “fat”. The models of today would be looked down upon because of their weight. In the 50s, being skinny meant that you were poor, and being curvy meant that you could afford food. Under the circumstance, it is considered deviant to weigh a certain amount in today’s world. What we haven’t talked about is how different everyone’s body is and a person who is 5’4 could weigh the same as a model who is 5’10, but look completely different because of how our bodies fluctuate and how they are made. It’s the same thing with Marilyn Monroe. She was 5’5 and absolutely adored by the people in her era. Models now average about 5’8, 3 inches taller than Monroe. Monroe’s weight fluctuated throughout her years of being a model, but her normal weight was about 118 pounds. Models now are between 90 and 120 pounds. Monroe is called an icon and “curvy” because she wasn’t as tall as models are today. She was the same size as models now, just her height was slightly off. It’s because of how different our bodies are that one person can look super skinny and another can look “curvier” and still weigh the
Beauty has been a socially constructed concept that has been around since the beginning of time. We set these ideals of what has to be perfect, according to society, and what is socially unacceptable. If a woman happens to be over a certain weight, she is fat according to society. We have put pressure on each other throughout the years and it has harmful effects to the people around us. Setting certain beauty standards that people feel they need to follow is going to hurt not only this generation, but generations to follow.
Having certain advertisements in mainstream media and the magazine covers that we see when we take a trip to the grocery store all have an effect on how we see one another. When you pick up a magazine, you’ll mostly …show more content…
In the 1950s, they had advertisements to be “curvy”. Now, we have advertisements to be “skinny”. We have taken a completely different angle in the modern world. If we were living in the 1950s and the models of today’s world walked in the the same room as the models of the 50s, the models that we see today would have been judged and looked at like we look at people who are “fat”. The models of today would be looked down upon because of their weight. In the 50s, being skinny meant that you were poor, and being curvy meant that you could afford food. Under the circumstance, it is considered deviant to weigh a certain amount in today’s world. What we haven’t talked about is how different everyone’s body is and a person who is 5’4 could weigh the same as a model who is 5’10, but look completely different because of how our bodies fluctuate and how they are made. It’s the same thing with Marilyn Monroe. She was 5’5 and absolutely adored by the people in her era. Models now average about 5’8, 3 inches taller than Monroe. Monroe’s weight fluctuated throughout her years of being a model, but her normal weight was about 118 pounds. Models now are between 90 and 120 pounds. Monroe is called an icon and “curvy” because she wasn’t as tall as models are today. She was the same size as models now, just her height was slightly off. It’s because of how different our bodies are that one person can look super skinny and another can look “curvier” and still weigh the