Women in American society today are held to an impractical standard of perfection. There is an unnecessary pressure placed on these women to conceal their “flaws” throughout all aspects of their everyday living. With a priority placed on robotic-like bliss, the word “natural” has essentially been altered now to define the term “not-as-fake.” The instantaneous nature of American society continues to pressure women to lust for unrealistic states of flawlessness that they cannot genuinely achieve. Continual sacrifices in a woman’s natural state of being are made as she crumbles under society’s unbearable pressure to be pretty.
What does it take to be a woman in today’s society? Be pretty. And by judging society’s importance on women to be pretty, …show more content…
Society has redefined the term natural to mean not-as-fake and the “‘natural’ female as makeup enhanced” (Greenwald). The paradoxical definition of natural beauty persistently “plagues the media” and women “to feel as if they have an obligation to apply makeup but still look like they aren’t wearing any” (Greenwald). Now with makeup tied in unison with the female identity, a woman is pressured to falsely believe she can “only look like a real woman if [she is] wearing makeup” (Greenwald) and without it, according to society’s new dictionary, she will not appear like the “normal” …show more content…
Society raises these women to compute their natural behaviors as errors, and they respond by deleting all traces of wrinkly cheeks, puffy eyes, tummy rolls, hairy legs, and graying hairs. The natural has been reprogrammed to function as “not-as-fake,” and the majority of brainwashed females no longer remember that they are in fact humans, not robots. Struggling to stay in touch with the ever-changing ideals and standards of the world, many go to extremes to stand out from the rest of the crowd by changing the appearance of their natural skin to meet a quota that only demands more. Falling into the trap of desiring for something one cannot have leads to circular dissatisfaction with one’s physical appearance and exerts energy into grasping a perfectionism that is out of reach. These women live every day attempting to achieve goals of perfectionism impossible for mankind and label themselves disgraceful when the natural, misinterpreted as an error, occurs, and society plays women into a loop of coveting unrealistic states of flawlessness that they will never be able to
What does it take to be a woman in today’s society? Be pretty. And by judging society’s importance on women to be pretty, …show more content…
Society has redefined the term natural to mean not-as-fake and the “‘natural’ female as makeup enhanced” (Greenwald). The paradoxical definition of natural beauty persistently “plagues the media” and women “to feel as if they have an obligation to apply makeup but still look like they aren’t wearing any” (Greenwald). Now with makeup tied in unison with the female identity, a woman is pressured to falsely believe she can “only look like a real woman if [she is] wearing makeup” (Greenwald) and without it, according to society’s new dictionary, she will not appear like the “normal” …show more content…
Society raises these women to compute their natural behaviors as errors, and they respond by deleting all traces of wrinkly cheeks, puffy eyes, tummy rolls, hairy legs, and graying hairs. The natural has been reprogrammed to function as “not-as-fake,” and the majority of brainwashed females no longer remember that they are in fact humans, not robots. Struggling to stay in touch with the ever-changing ideals and standards of the world, many go to extremes to stand out from the rest of the crowd by changing the appearance of their natural skin to meet a quota that only demands more. Falling into the trap of desiring for something one cannot have leads to circular dissatisfaction with one’s physical appearance and exerts energy into grasping a perfectionism that is out of reach. These women live every day attempting to achieve goals of perfectionism impossible for mankind and label themselves disgraceful when the natural, misinterpreted as an error, occurs, and society plays women into a loop of coveting unrealistic states of flawlessness that they will never be able to