Beautiful is an adjective that every woman wants to be described with. Women want to feel beautiful and for other people to recognize them as so. Which is perfectly normal, however, the standards of exterior beauty for women have become utterly unrealistic. It has gotten to a point with the retouching and airbrushing that even the models the everyday women idealize were all complaining about different parts of their bodies. Their necks, their thighs, their stomachs, their eyes… And it hit Ann that these models were the pinnacle of beauty that society was holding up as every woman’s ideal, yet it still was not good enough. (Anderberg 73) Women are left having to spend hours getting ready everyday just to get in the same ball park as the beauty
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There is an issue in our culture today if “when 500 women were asked what they feared most in the world, 190 replied ‘getting fat’” (Bordo 140). In a world where there is rape, murder, death, loneliness, and war, almost half of the individuals from the survey were most afraid of gaining some weight, a natural thing that happens because women eat, get pregnant, and are sometimes too busy doing more important things than going to the gym. It has reached a point where women are starving themselves and throwing up their food just to be pretty in the eyes of society. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are cries of help from women that this standard is too high and the “disquieting meaning of contemporary beauty ideals” are physically destroying women and their bodies (Bordo 140). Everyone is born with a certain body type, and the beauty should be in the uniqueness of every women’s body. We should be celebrating the differences instead of trying to force everyone to look alike and guilting everyone who doesn’t fit into the mold. Instead of these girls feeding themselves, they are being told by society to feed “the fashion, beauty, diet, surgery, entertainment, media, and pornography industries” (Briscoe 55). Those industries and many more thrive off the self-consciousness of women and their inner desire to fit in. It is so hard these days to even get away from the pressures of looking a certain way when it is everywhere. Beginning from childhood with “fairy tales, [that] emphasize such things are women’s passivity and beauty (fairy tales). Then it continues throughout life since, “both traditional and new media have been found to regularly focus on women’s appearances in a sexualized way while ignoring women’s personalities” (Eggermont & Vandenbosch 869). Women see in
There is an issue in our culture today if “when 500 women were asked what they feared most in the world, 190 replied ‘getting fat’” (Bordo 140). In a world where there is rape, murder, death, loneliness, and war, almost half of the individuals from the survey were most afraid of gaining some weight, a natural thing that happens because women eat, get pregnant, and are sometimes too busy doing more important things than going to the gym. It has reached a point where women are starving themselves and throwing up their food just to be pretty in the eyes of society. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are cries of help from women that this standard is too high and the “disquieting meaning of contemporary beauty ideals” are physically destroying women and their bodies (Bordo 140). Everyone is born with a certain body type, and the beauty should be in the uniqueness of every women’s body. We should be celebrating the differences instead of trying to force everyone to look alike and guilting everyone who doesn’t fit into the mold. Instead of these girls feeding themselves, they are being told by society to feed “the fashion, beauty, diet, surgery, entertainment, media, and pornography industries” (Briscoe 55). Those industries and many more thrive off the self-consciousness of women and their inner desire to fit in. It is so hard these days to even get away from the pressures of looking a certain way when it is everywhere. Beginning from childhood with “fairy tales, [that] emphasize such things are women’s passivity and beauty (fairy tales). Then it continues throughout life since, “both traditional and new media have been found to regularly focus on women’s appearances in a sexualized way while ignoring women’s personalities” (Eggermont & Vandenbosch 869). Women see in