Christian Ideals

It is no secret that today’s society defines beauty as thin, long-legged women with statuesque bodies. Examples are found everywhere just by glancing at the closest magazine ads or by scrolling down the latest fashion article online. Normal, everyday women are being forgotten and tossed aside to make room for the “Top-Model”-like women currently crowding up Hollywood. Media depicts women as an unattainable image. They pressure ladies to buy the products they’re advertising; luring them with false advertisements promising that with it, they too could be perfect. While the media portrays women in a certain way for advertising and marketing benefits, it has caused numerous negatives effects to women’s self-esteems nationwide, it contradicts

“Attractive personality is much more powerful than attractive genetics or any ability to fill in an impossible” (Kotyakov). Every woman can relate to the poem “Phenomenal woman”, written by Maya Angelou . She wants to show the world what makes her beautiful and expresses it in various ways. Women, now put themselves down because they do not think about their inner beauty, they only listen to what people may say about them. The message this poem sends out to the world of stereotype is empowerment comes from being confident in your own female skin. Beauty does not define a phenomenal woman. This poem represents the definition of a phenomenal woman because it helps women understand how it important it is to have self-love, independence and

For a long time, the media and especially advertisers have promoted the idea of a ’perfect woman’ with the flawless features and feminine traits, a woman who obeys and serves man. Over time, the perfect woman has evolved as a person who does it all in the manner that she works on par with men, has a family, earns equal to that of the male counterpart and still look flawless. The common factor in the above perceptions is the flawless and perfect looking woman. But in today’s

We live in a world filled with the ideas of the millennial generation. The ideas of a more open-minded, liberal view of the world surrounds us in every way. Many young people around the same age as I have this mindset, and those of us with a more conservative, Christianity based idealism are few and far apart. When you grow up in a world consumed with ideas that are different than what you were raised to know you often find yourself lost and trying to decide what you should believe.

Every individual has their own ideas on what is considered beautiful. Beauty can be on the inside or on the outside because it varies to each individual’s preference. However, pressure from society causes people to believe that they must adapt and conform to society’s apocryphal image of beauty. Today, society’s image of beauty has been manufactured on a distorted perception of unrealistic perfection that has been asserted by the media and implemented through its advertisements to proclaim that women need to appease this standard in order to be considered beautiful in society. Media’s pessimistic views of beauty influence the way women portray themselves in daily life. Media has a negative impact on women and the way they

Women today are often bombarded with countless images of highly distorted and photo shopped creations that are meant to represent the ideal woman. Every time we turn on a TV, open a magazine, or visit YouTube; we get forced into consuming these images. With ads running like Victoria’s Secret’s “Perfect Body” campaign, which featured very non diverse thin models in lingerie. Across the image of all the women were the words the perfect

Women have struggled against stereotypes, stigmas and expectations for generations. In a world where women are surrounded by images of stick figure, perfect models, they often don’t feel they measure up and can’t be as beautiful. That’s why in 2004 the personal care and body wash brand Dove decided to make a change. They started their “Real Beauty” campaign and released a variety of advertisements depicting real, normal women and their real beauty. One of these ads, the 2013 “Real Beauty Sketches,” showed women detailing their appearances to a forensic sketch artist then comparing their sketches to how others had described them. Before long it was “the most-watched video ad of all time”

Not long ago, a woman’s success was measured by the success of her husband and her domestic prowess. Today, a woman is presumed successful if she can emulate the standards of beauty portrayed in the media. Unfortunately, this subliminally enforced standard is unattainable to some women, regardless of the quality of their character. Let’s examine how western women went from being pioneering superheroes, to people who measure their worth against airbrushed photographs of impossibly beautiful women.

What is beauty? According to society, to be beautiful you must have long legs, big boobs, and curves in all the right places. For years, the world of media has brainwashed young women into believing that to be beautiful you must have smooth skin, long lashes, and cake on makeup. Commercials, magazines, and other forms of social media have fabricated this image of what a “perfect woman” should look like. However, the harsh reality is that most of us don’t, I know I certainly don’t. Yet countless girls like myself still try to fit into this mould of perfection. Countless girls like myself go to great lengths just to come out short of perfection. And all too often, these great lengths come at a cost.

Natalie Grant’s book explains how our culture follows beauty and perfection. She takes a deep breath and tells the truth, shining the light on some very real and dark lies that we believe about what makes us beautiful.

After many years of decrying the media’s unrealistic depiction of female beauty, over the last decade, women across the globe have raised their collective voices and insisted that the media portray more realistic and anatomically diverse idealized images of women (Bushak, 2015). As a result, Madison Avenue and Hollywood have begun to include models and actresses of varying shapes, sizes, and colors more frequently in ad campaigns, commercials, television shows, and movies (Bennett-Smith, 2015). Subsequently, the media’s depiction of female beauty has slowly started to become more inclusive and realistic (Lindsey, 2015). Nonetheless, more progress must be made in order to align the media’s presentation of ideal female beauty with reality.

Take yourself back to your naive and innocent 10-year-old self, flicking through a magazine, watching a movie or a television program, looking at advertisements as you walk through the mall. Despite horrifically unhealthy and dangerously skinny models and then being told that is what it takes to be considered beautiful. The purpose of media is to encourage a single mindset and view. The use of underweight girls in the modeling industry sets a tone for young girls to look up to these unhealthy women with unrealistic bodies, as the media deems them beautiful. Determined,

Commercials and films outside of the text support Naomi Wolf's argument that the standard of beauty has taken over the work of social coercion formerly left to myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and passivity, all of which have been used to keep women powerless. A powerful seventy-nine seconds film named “Beauty Pressure” and published on YouTube on October 2, 2007 shows many images that women are concerned so much such as, diets, boob, nose, butt jobs, “perfect body”. Also the film shows advertisements on how “improve” women’s physical appearance, for example, how to lose weight, how to have the perfect skin, how to have a flat “tummy”. . As Naomi Wolf says it in her essay “it is not accident that so many potentially powerful

It 's not a mystery that society 's ideals of beauty have a drastic and frightening effect on women. Popular culture frequently tells society, what is supposed to recognize and accept as beauty, and even though beauty is a concept that differs on all cultures and modifies over time, society continues to set great importance on what beautiful means and the significance of achieving it; consequently, most women aspire to achieve beauty, occasionally without measuring the consequences on their emotional or physical being. Unrealistic beauty standards are causing tremendous damage to society, a growing crisis where popular culture conveys the message that external beauty is the most significant characteristic women can have. The approval of prototypes where women are presented as a beautiful object or the winner of a beauty contest by evaluating mostly their physical attractiveness creates a faulty society, causing numerous negative effects; however, some of the most apparent consequences young and adult women encounter by beauty standards, can manifest as body dissatisfaction, eating disorders that put women’s life in danger, professional disadvantage, and economic difficulty.

Woman spend precious time comparing themselves to the celebrities Hollywood and the media has told them they should look up to. Yet, these celebrities are not always real; famous talents take advantage of plastic surgery on a daily basis. Doctors are persuaded to morph the faces normal women into that of a supermodel or actress, all for the sake of interesting television. Women take to social media to stalk out their favorite Hollywood dolls, searching for a source of inspiration. Hollywood and the media have extreme power over defining what makes a woman beautiful and have pressured millions of women to conform to their standards by getting plastic surgery.