Marilyn Monroe Body Image Analysis

major brand that retouches images. Coincidentally, their market is younger females, who are more so at risk for have body image issues. By retouching ads, we are allowing girls and boys to feel that what they have isn't good enough. They easily buy into this ideology that whatever product is being falsely advertised will aid in their quest to be prefect. Companies are allowed to photoshop, alter images, and make a large profit as a result of making the consumer insecure. Standards of beauty have been forever changing. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, being on the larger side was considered a good thing because it insinuated that you were rich. Somewhere along the way being called fat had a bad connotation and forever since …show more content…
She was a famous model and her fame carries on even in contemporary setting. When you really look at her though, you can see that she wasn’t paper thin. She had substance to her and yet she was deemed extraordinarily beautiful. School standards have changed dramatically even in such a relatively short elapse of time. It’s truly fascinating how in modern social laws, she wouldn’t have been considered so alluring. As Marilyn Monroe once said, “ To all the girls who think you’re fat just because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, it’s society who’s …show more content…
We focus on the imperfections, we are bullied into putting up a front in order to avoid more pain, and nobody tells us that this is wrong. The expectations to be perfect is not refuted by the adults in our lives. The images that surround us everyday or women photoshopped into looking like dolls are forever imprinted in our minds. The stereotypes surrounding how fit a man should be encompasses their body image. Sometimes we forget that women are not the only ones that suffer from this travesty. Men are taught that it is not okay to be feminine, that crying if for girls, and that physical fitness matters the most. Some men just aren't built to be muscular and some women aren’t designed to be paper thin; society doesn’t dwell on these specifics, nor does it show sympathy.  Have ever tried to pack a suitcase that is plum full and had to maneuver clothing around to forcefully make everything fit, only to find out when you reopen it that your clothes is now completely creased? The same thing happens when you force people into being things other than themselves, they come out all folded. People have real and raw emotions that are fragile. There needs to be a call for worldwide acceptance of difference, wether it be race, gender, or sexual preference. William Sloane Coffin Jr., “Diversity may be the hardest thing to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thin for a society to live