... but why? In the music video, “Try,” by Colbie Cailat, women realize they do not need society’s approval, and they do not need to ,”try,” as long as they like themselves. The most important thing is that they like themselves. Women should not be categorized or compared by their outer appearance. I got this idea from the concept of constructivism, “race,” is ,” place.” This is the idea that certain races or ethnicity fit into stereotypes. Constructivism is not natural. People are categorized into certain groups because of the color of...
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...they bring along with them. One specific ad that got a lot of people talking was Protein World’s Are You Beach Body Ready? This advertisement encourages women to lose weight by using precise visualizations and inferring specific body standards, further insinuating that women must maintain a certain body image to be beautiful....
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...on a daily basis with images of “ideal beauty” and culture norms, that when we see a huge billboard with a slim skinny women with big breasts on it, we think to ourselves this is what we have to look like to be accepted or to be able to be to be pictured on a billboard. I am not saying these women aren’t beautiful, but when most mainstream images push one narrow definition of beauty, and how women should be perceived, it also suggests that women who don’t look like that are not important....
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...to Conceal Her No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.Ó -Oscar Wilde. As true as this statement may be, women in today's society do as much as possible to hide themselves from ever being under those certain conditions. Women use make-up to hide unattractive features, and it is portrayed as a true benefit for women in a recent advertisement for women's powderflage concealer in the woman's magazine, Cosmopolitan. The scene appears to take place around the mid 1900Õs. The woman in the advertisement is wearing a long green camouflage dress. The man next to her, perhaps her husband, is stating to another man: You're telling me this little bad-boy will diffuse her dark circles & fine lines. The woman in this advertisement is actually smiling at the man's statement. He is speaking for her, about her body and her physical appearance to another man, yet she seems unfazed by his opinion. In today's society, men seem to have the most important opinions on beauty and their opinions have affected women's physical expectations of themselves. In order to understand this advertisement and the meanings within it, we have to establish a meaning of the product, concealer. Concealer is used to hide imperfections on the skin and therefore has a positive association with make-up. Men and women have associated beauty with perfection and, therefore, the more imperfections a woman can hide, the more beautiful she will look. In today's society...
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...have different tastes. In some instances where we see huge billboards, magazine covers and television advertisements covered with faces of beautiful models we do not agree with the statement ‘Beauty lies in the Eyes of Beholder’ as such instances there are so many people involved having similar tastes. Some men prefer dating chubby women with fair complexion while others prefer skinny women with attractive vital stats. Similarly, some women prefer hairy men and find them strong and attractive while some think of such men as virile and repulsive. The concept of beauty has evolved from era to era. In the modern world men and women have different tastes for beauty while people living in early 60’s and 70’s had different tastes for beauty. In the earlier eras women had to be fat to be considered as beautiful as seen in many of the paintings of the Titian. The concept of beauty is again changing gradually with popular actors like Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Jennifer Lopez revealing that a beautiful woman is indeed with curves. As a matter of fact, when we are younger and growing up we admire things that appear beautiful from the outside. We are tempted towards beautiful men and women without considering much about their real inner self. But as we grow and enter into adulthood we start admiring things that are beautiful from the inside. Outer beauty remains no longer the tempting aspect for us. In comparison, the outer beauty diminishes with growing age as...
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...Media constantly focuses on appearance. Are you too fat, too skinny, too wrinkled, too old, too young? At the end of the day everyone just wants to feel like they fit the label beautiful. Beautiful is a word that has linked to women. Women are called beautiful, like beautiful things, say beautiful more. Society has taken beauty away from men. Men still want to feel beautiful too. Whether gay or straight every man wants to feel beautiful just as much as women. Most men would not put it like that out of fear of being labeled feminine. Over the last few decades, however, society has been progressing towards acceptance regardless of race, gender, hobby, etc. Pageant personifies this by showing a range of strides drag queens are taking in redefining...
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...them feel beautiful or use celebrities as motivation. Celebrities are our role models and we try to follow them in the latest fashion like clothing, hair, make-up and acting. Teens especially want an iconic person to look up to and follow them for their selflessness deeds and actions. Celebrities like Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey, and Queen Latifah are example of iconic celebrities that many people look up to and try to mimic in order to feel self-fulfilled. Celebrity culture does help define our view of beauty for men and women worldwide. The celebrity culture is in our lives every day, people try to copy them in any way possible because they are they’re our role models. Tyra Banks is an exceptional model that has been through many difficulties as an African American model. She faced racism as a child when she first began her modeling career. As she was getting older she began to put aside all the harsh comments and continued her passion for modeling. Tyra Banks was the first black young woman in the modeling business. As she was growing up, she became very famous because of her age, origin, and difficulties she faced as a young model. Many teens started to look up to her and wanted to be just like her. Tyra was tall, skinny, and smart, she was the perfect package. Many people liked her because of her beauty; boys would love her, while many girls wanted to be like her. Teens see Tyra as the perfect picture and they want to be like her, skinny, tall and beautiful. Tyra has inner...
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...Greek Mythology has assigned many roles to women in society. Women hold most of the power, although it is not very obvious. Also, women have to be beautiful in order to be accepted into Greek society. Finally, women are supposed to be obedient in Greek society. Women hold most of the power in Greek society. In the myth the Trojan War, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite find a golden apple labeled “to the fairest.” They all believe the apple is for themselves, so they go to Paris of Troy to decide. All three goddesses offer something to Paris. Paris chooses Aphrodite, who offers the most beautiful woman in the world. Women played a huge role in starting the Trojan War. It was the goddesses who went to Paris and it was a woman that Paris was after. Women have to be beautiful in order to be accepted in Greek society. For example, in the myth Perseus, Medusa is turned into a Gorgon, “each with wings, and snaky hair, most horrible to mortals." Medusa is shunned by society because she looks like a horrible monster. Perseus is told to go slay Medusa because she isn't beautiful and because she is a monster....
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...Beauty Pageants in Today’s Society Beauty pageants have been a part of the American Society since the 1920’s so that women or young girls can compete and be judged mainly on their physical appearance, but also on talent and personality. They say pageants build a young woman’s confidence because she is up on stage, where all eyes are directed toward her, cheering her on, ultimately making her feel glamorous. In “Introduction to Beauty Pageants: At Issue” Rosie Goldsmith says, “Those in favor of the pageants argue that there is no shame in showing off one’s beauty, fitness, and health.” Others say it is a great way to make friends and have life long friendships. With all of these benefits that come along with beauty pageants, what could possibly be so harmful about them? Beauty pageants may build some women’s confidence and help build friendships, but overall, beauty pageants are degrading to women and serve no real purpose in today’s society. There are a few reasons that are considered to come to the conclusion that beauty pageants causes more harm that good. The first thing that is considered is the fact that they are judged on appearance and poise. “A beauty should be judged for the good works, not for the beautiful thighs and backless blouses.” By judging a woman based on her physical appearance and her clothes, we are degrading women to mere objects. Women have fought way too hard for equality and respect for the last several decades to be lowered to mere objects parading...
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...Culture Myths Women always want to look and feel beautiful all the time no matter what. Imperfections and flaws are irritation to anyone, especially women. They bring out a lot of self confidence issues, come out at the wrong time, and women just want to hide all of those in make-up. By putting make-up on the imperfections and flaws seem to disappear and women feel on top and beautiful again. Make-up should not determine weather you are beautiful or not. Sometimes women look like two completely different people with and with out their make-up on like an alter ego of what they want to be. Everyone has imperfections and covering them up is not going to make them go away. The Revlon commercial makes it seem like anything but perfect skin is not acceptable. They made a formula that bends and reflects light to help diffuse flaws. This helps spread out the imperfections and flaws but do not make the flaws go away. Many products look better in a commercial or in a picture. After receiving the product it does not look or work like what the commercial has stated. Even by adding make up imperfections and flaws can still be noticeable. The people acting in the commercial usually already have clear skin, or they shoot the commercial and Photoshop their skin to make their product more believable. In that same commercial they say that the make-up will make you look better in any kind of light. They also use different lightings to make it seem more real. While they are using different...
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...motivates are women of today. The media is the main thing that influences are children and society . The way it pretty much makes girls thing how they should be, skinny ,curvy and covered in make up to be beautiful. To me this is just ridiculous to think. I see beautiful girls all the time that aren’t skinny an covered in makeup. To me beauty isn’t just what u can make you’re self to be, its what u are. The media tries to form peoples mind on this is what u should be to be attractive and beautiful. But the truth is they most of the time use Photoshop to change an already beautiful person into what they think should be beautiful. To me there just making a fake person witch to me is just like lying to are society. Women today spend around 12,000 to 15,000 dollars a year on beauty products. And earn 77 cents to the dollar compared to men in today’s media. Most men in today’s media are even starting to have to wear makeup and be a certain size, shape and look. But most announcers and news casters are older men sometimes fat and not too sharp looking, But if it is a women the station gets less viewers witch is ridiculous, women can be just as smart as the men. Not to mention how women leaders are looked at way differently than men. There is always room for a women’s opinion in most debates they have a nicer way of handling situations than men. Men think more destructive and harsh on situations witch isn’t always the answer to what we need. In he media back in the day women were looked...
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...Alicia A. Smith October 29, 2014 Eng.4705/Essay #2 Beauty Complex The word beauty has many negative connotations for African American women. Over the years African American women have been subjected, misrepresented and also dehumanized by the exemplification of beauty and identity. This pattern of internalizing the perception of beauty to coincide with European standards have caused many African American women in the process to alter their physical appearances and personify a culture that has disregarded the uniqueness of being “ black and beautiful”. The cultural aesthetics of being “black and beautiful” has been distorted in literature, movies and television shows to appease an acceptable standard of beauty that in reality is unrealistic....
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...In The Odyssey and The Siren Song, both Homer and Margaret Atwood depict women as beautiful yet manipulative creatures. The Sirens are mythical beings that are half human half bird whom are defined as dangerous yet beautiful creatures that no man could resist, except for Odysseus. Odysseus and his men approach the island of the Sirens, and Odysseus, as instructed by Circe, plugs his men's ears with beeswax and has them bind him to the mast of the ship. Although Homer’s The Odyssey connotes the Sirens as vicious and eerie, Margaret Atwood’s Siren Song depicts the creatures as mysterious yet beautiful creatures, which is conveyed through each author’s use of figurative language and diction. In The Odyssey, the Sirens are characterized as irresistible yet evil creatures. No man can resist them, except for Odysseus. He was able to resist the temptation by tying himself down and putting beeswax in his shipmates’ ears, so that they can avoid the women as well. Homer proves how inevitable the Sirens voices are by...
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...Today these are the thoughts of many women who feel they’re not beautiful. Naomi Wolf’s essay “The Beauty Myth” explores, why women feel they don’t measure up. Meanwhile Helena Maria Viramontes’ short story “Miss Clairol” examines the life of Arlene, who is a product of “The Beauty Myth”. Each author shows the power exerted by beauty ideals over women’s identities and goals, including the anxieties produced in women by these beauty ideals. The basis of Wolf’s essay was to show as time progresses it seems, the standards of physical beauty have grown stronger for women as they gained power in other social arenas. “The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us” (120) Women have accomplished so much over the past few decades yet, as you watch television or walk around the city, images of pencil thin women are shown to basically tell you that what you see is beautiful and if you don’t look like that you’re not. Wolf states that women today feel a need to purchase cosmetics to make them feel a sense of beauty, this is actually evident in “Miss Clairol” when Arlene is getting ready for her date, “She has painted her eyebrows so that the two are arched and even, pencil thin and high.” (90) This is showing that something so simple such as eyebrows have to be literally drawn on and have a specific width for Arlen to feel beautiful. Today’s society seems backwards to...
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...The standards of beauty incessantly change decade after decade. Today, society portrays beauty as having flawless skin, long hair and exquisite tans. Women try to mirror this “ideal” image of beauty by using tanning beds, hair extensions and pounds of expensive makeup. However, in the Elizabethan era, being beautiful was declared as having distinct pale skin, bright eyes, colorful lips and cheeks and hair in a mesmeric up do. Having a colorless tint of the skin was said to show nobility and power. The more pale a person’s skin was, the more accepted they were in the Elizabethan society. Women often functioned behind the scenes of their husbands. They were urged to be obedient and virginal. Women were often accessories to the men in every aspect...
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