This could be yours for a limited time only!" and "Don't wait, reduced prices on all of the best!" Advertisements like these constantly bombard the lives of teens. Teens are pressured to buy products to make them beautiful, more popular, or unique. The cold truth is this, advertisements don't target real human beings. Bodacious darlings don the boxes of hair colors and magazines, but the people on the boxes aren't real. They are too perfect, too beautiful. Marketing agencies focus on teenagers' insecurities by shoving the unattainable into their every day life. They set the standard for all traits, whether it be beauty or charisma. Advertisers seem to think that all teenage girls are cookie-cutter copies of each other. Personally, I don't want to be flawless, have the perfect boyfriend, or the perfect life. The advertisements in magazines that appeal to me are the ones that are grounded in reality. I am not the girl on the magazine cover, I have physical flaws; I accept myself for who I am, and I am more than a two-dimensional face.
Unlike the touched-up girls in perfume ads and clothing ads, I am not a flawless sex symbol. Frankly, I don't want to be. My imperfections make me …show more content…
Real women have personalities that go beyond sexual intrigue. I would like to think that I am a funny person. Thank goodness have more to myself than my appearance. I am intelligent and kind. I can get things done. Advertisers might think that the perfect woman is a flat woman, but I'd like to disagree. The perfect woman is the one who works hard to become exactly who she wants to be. The perfect woman is the American woman who fights for her dreams. Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, Jane Austen: They weren't beautiful. You couldn't have put them on a magazine page and sold them for sex symbols. No, they were so much more than that. The two-dimensional aspect of advertising is appalling. What is on the inside matters even more than the
Unlike the touched-up girls in perfume ads and clothing ads, I am not a flawless sex symbol. Frankly, I don't want to be. My imperfections make me …show more content…
Real women have personalities that go beyond sexual intrigue. I would like to think that I am a funny person. Thank goodness have more to myself than my appearance. I am intelligent and kind. I can get things done. Advertisers might think that the perfect woman is a flat woman, but I'd like to disagree. The perfect woman is the one who works hard to become exactly who she wants to be. The perfect woman is the American woman who fights for her dreams. Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, Jane Austen: They weren't beautiful. You couldn't have put them on a magazine page and sold them for sex symbols. No, they were so much more than that. The two-dimensional aspect of advertising is appalling. What is on the inside matters even more than the