The Influence Of The Oppression Of Women

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Contrary to what people like to believe, females are under so much pressure from society to have the “perfect” bodies that it is time to wake up everyone and face the unspoken. In society, women are pushed tremendously by everyone to have a decent body. It has gotten so terrible that girls are changing their bodies to be able to fit in. That means females are undergoing the knife just to feel “beautiful." This is disgusting. Women everywhere across the world are seeing females being photoshopped into an unreal image, and we actually believe this is the real person. We are down on ourselves because there are so many unreal expectations set in our minds with such propaganda. Even though this is a known problem, we continue to sweep it under the rug; this is something serious that needs more attention. The leading area to this falseness is placed in mind by celebrities. Females watch these people be photoshopped into looking… not like real people. And this gives all these girls a false outlook on what beauty really is. In most cases this occurs during the adolescence, when experiencing hormonal changes these things are what young girls look to becoming. And when they don't, the feel so insecure and some even disgusted with their own bodies. Seeing this type of “perfection” everywhere seems like that's how we have to be to get boys attention. …show more content…
If everyone just heard and thought more about how this imaging and photoshop affected the mentality and physical appearance of women, we could stop seeing female bodies as either “perfect” or “imperfect.” For in the end, there are so many beautiful women under the makeup and false reality you see everyday in this world. We need to make our world a place where there is no definition of “perfect” for women young and old. Look at those around, these are all perfectly imperfect

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