What is beauty anyway?
So who decides what beauty is? Who decided that a skeleton-thin, drawn-faced girl is the ideal? What a paradox...a McDonald's on every corner and societal pressures to weight 105 lbs. How do women do it? How do they balance immense pressure to conform with the definition of beauty while living their lives the way they want. We are one of (if not THE most) obese nations in the world. Yet we subscribe to this pop culture definition of what a woman should look like. Where is the middle ground here? Lets not eat 10 hamburgers a week...and lets not tell our girls that they have to perpetually lose weight. How about a little moderation?!?
These airbrushed models do our girls a great disservice. The advertising industry who objectifies their bodies also does them no good. The pornography industry further degrades their existence. I really try to respect the women I come in contact with. I tell my wife she looks nice. An do you know what? I tell the girls I work with, my sisters, and even female clients who come into the bank they look nice too. Not that they really care what I think, but I feel bad for them. I work with a girl who is cute who continually puts herself down in terms of appearance. This cannot be completely attributed to cultural pressures...but they are certainly involved to some extent. I am not saying that fat girls should be on magazine covers...I just think the airbrushed, sexualized vixens could be toned down a bit.
Like Tone Loc said...lets not stare at their breasts. Lets not marginalize their talents. Lets focus on their abilities and their potential.
posted by Anonymous at 4/08/2006 10:45:00 PM
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As the last, most refined, and most beautiful creation made by the hands of our Lord, woman deserves to be held up as such. Of course the world takes the most beautiful creations, distorts their perceptions, and devalues them. We as men understand this because that beauty is distorted to appeal to our baser instincts. We have to fight that instinct. We need to promote the ideal that they should be held up where they deserve to be, and encourage the self-esteem they need to expect nothing less.
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