Beauty In Mean Girls

The film suggest that the definition of beauty comes from what majority of the society believes in and that can be portrayed through media. For instances, during the film, when Ms Tyler, was running away from the doctors and nurse, around almost every corner of the hospital was a television broadcasting what one will assume to be the society's leader. The way he look was what is accepted to be “normal” just because he is someone that have an significant role in society. Also because he look like that and is broadcasted through media, it reveals to the society that they live in what the standard of beauty looks like. This connects to our world today, where we too also turn to media to help find expectations to follow in order to look normal …show more content…
We ask ourselves, why would we want a product that is essentially damage, but realizing that if society say rip jeans is not “damage” then it is not “damage. Therefore, relates to the idea of if society say this is “beauty” then of course, we all feel the need to comfrom because we want to feel “normal” and be apart of an idea that everyone seems to agree with. Why would we want to fight against popular belief from millions of supporters just to hold our own individual argument. This also relates to races and beauty now because, in our society, although we have different beauty standards from the Twilight Zone, we have the exact same concept of the representation of race in beauty. In the film, all the characters, even background characters are white. Towards the end of the film, not only were they all white but they pretty much all look the same with different hairstyle. To take it a step further, even the man in all the television screen was …show more content…
White being the most superior race according to history, just shows that now in modern time we have the most beauty ideals related to that races. Growing up in an Asian Community, every girl in school wanted to dye their hair blond and get blue contacts even though that was not culturally accepted in my community. Then, during my teen years I made a trip to China and even there people find“American White Race” to be some sort of an appeasing concept and when I travel to city areas in China, I will see lots of girls trying to copy “white people” hairstyle and even clothing brands that are so popular in the United States.Other thing that I witness through social media, is how African American Women like to permanently make there hair straight, which is obviously not their natural hairstyle and many people online will criticize these women for going against their culture; however, as a teen growing in modern time, a part of me sees that as something that is totally normal, but the other part of me know that it is just beauty standards. Standards that we all at a young age grew up conforming into and thus sacrificing our