No ones Perfect

What is this world coming to when it comes to women appearances! The media is infecting the younger generation of girls minds with impossible to reach standards. Much of the media expects women to have the “perfect” figure. But what is the perfect body? The media expects women to have to body measurements 36- 24- 36 which to me is usually unrealistic. These measurements are often said in songs or there are pictures of air brushed models in magazines that just look so unrealistic. Many women are becoming brain washed by the media that the “Perfect Women” is possible and attainable. I’m sure many have heard of the Barbie Doll example; this is one of the ways the media has brain washed many younger girls into believing this figure is realistic. If you took the measurements of Barbie she would be over 7 feet tall and would weigh 125 pounds and would have the shape of 32-20-42, now how is that possible? She wouldn’t be able to live because there would be no room for her insides.

Many women suffer from low self-esteem because of the pressure to have the “perfect” body which is why many women are going under the knife and getting plastic surgery since it is impossible to achieve the perfect body on your own. Many people become obsessed with plastic surgery, now that they know they can change one thing, they want to start changing all of the other imperfect parts on their bodies. For example the star from the reality TV show “The Hills” Heidi Montag had 10 plastic surgery procedures done on her in one day and this isn’t the first time she has ever had plastic surgery either. Here are the pictures of her before any surgery, after a few, and then what she looks like now after 10 surgeries.

http://images.fox.com.au/2010/01/20/332588/heidi-montag-plastic-surgery-10-photos.jpg

They are changing their identity or even losing it, they are no longer a natural human being. She has been bitten and now infected with the media’s view of the perfect body and lost her true identity. Even in the “Vampire Lectures” a part where Tony read in class Rickels says “bathed in blood in order to appear more beautiful” even in the book the look of the vampires matter?
This whole concept is very sociologically fascinating because it is crazy to think of what our world is coming to. I don’t understand why it is just the women that are targeted in the media. I mean of course I could see how if a guy isn’t buff enough or have a six pack of abs he might feel pressure. But I’m sure if a magazine could chose between a woman celebrity gaining a few pounds (and maybe actually look healthy) to a male celebrity losing his six pack of abs; I’m sure the woman would get the most press. I’m sure if you ask a group of males if they would want to trade to the opposite sex they would say “no,” honestly sometime the pressure of looking skinny makes me wonder if the life being a guy has this much pressure? Which someday I would like to know if the majority of the male sex has as much media pressure of looking good as much as the girls do.

In the lecture the other day I was looking threw the notes that Kacie took and I noticed where she said “In this day and age, in early 2010, what are our phantoms? What haunts us? Is it still the vampire?” I can’t remember if the author or a classmate asked this, but I think it is interesting. In my opinion, I would actually answer that this day and age that the media haunts us. Many people focus so much of their time to fitting in with the people around them appearance wise and socially. And a lot of the times we hide behind technology to communicate with our fellow human beings. Or in some ways we hide behind plastic surgery, on the outside it isn’t really us, it is the surgeons work or you might say their “art.” The only true part of us is in the inside unless we become infected by the parasite called the media. But as the time goes on people are starting to realize that appearance isn’t everything and finally figuring out that “The Perfect Woman” is unrealistic. The dove commercial is a pushing to turn this world back around and showing “The Real Woman.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U