Use Of Satire In Drop Dead Gorgeous

Beauty is determined by society and their standards. Women are expected to be skinny, pretty and a size two which puts a lot of pressure on women. The pressures of society persuade women to go through extreme measures to fit in with society standards. This is evident in the short story “The Falling girl” and “They’re Not Your Husband” as the main characters are impacted by social expectations, insecurity and peer pressure.

In the movie it didn’t matter if a person is smart and talented, if they weren’t attractive and lean, that person wad a nonexistent. For example the kid in the math club were viewed as geeks and outcasts. Because they were in a math club that was viewed as social suicide, the students didn’t care if they had a bright future ahead of them. In the movie most students seemed to a person who was just materialistic, for example on of the girls from the Plastics. That girl was considered as the dumbest girl a person well ever meet, but because she was pretty and satisfied the guys’ needs, she was popular. This issue is very realistic a lot of schools in America, most students only care about their materialistic appearance. A person would always be accepted if they have nice stuff like shoes and clothe and if they are attractive. I remember when I was in high school I was considered an outcast because I didn’t have many materialistic stuff and I was in the science club. Nobody was interested in my personality they were just interested with what was on the surface of a

There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner.

What does being beautiful really mean? It is the possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, or think about. It goes way beyond the looks but what is within. The media seems to have a different view on beauty. The concept to tell someone what they are or what they should be, is what the media exhibits to society with ideal females known as “models.” In Curtis Sittenfeld, “Your Life as a Girl,” she describes the life as a female and the way they are being viewed. Although all females are beautiful, they feel like they need to appear a certain way to be categorized as such. Living in a world where others opinions are more powerful than one’s own, makes it harder for women to actually consider themselves as being beautiful.

The portrayal of many stereotypes in a cliche set of fake, made up, pageant girls within Libba Bray’s novel, Beauty Queens, surprisingly moves away from this idea of satire when looking at the bare bones of the storyline. It’s a simple story of women, moving past the patriarchy they’ve been raised where beauty is everything, growing into who they truly are and celebrating their differences as humans, all while surviving being stranded on an island.

     To begin, this story includes everyday oppressional forces that weigh down young women. The characters' roles as pageant girls continue even after their plane crashes on a desert island. This exposes the toxic conditioning they've faced and the spotlight they've been placed in their whole lives. It seems the only time these women feel empowered and respected is when others are rooting for them and their looks. As early as the introduction, it's revealed that "a camera crew bravely recording every bit of the turbulence and drama", (page 3) was following the girls around during the beauty pageant. On a figurative level, the cameras may represent the eyes and attention placed on these women. The contestants regard it as normal, however it deeply contributes to their lack of respect in society; the

The sorority women were all made up to resemble White women; whereas, women not in a sorority were made up very natural. One of the big dilemmas in that was the style of hair these women had. Half had weave, the other were very natural. This creates a divide amongst colored college women. Some are pretty and feel superior, instead of remaining humble and true to who they are. We rendered this down to racial discrimination. Light skins vs Dark skins. These women are genuinely arguing over who looks more natural and who looks more whitewashed. With aspects such as hair and makeup, the movie portrays the difference between whitewashed women and grounded women who are proud of their

Through the media society puts out high standards and expectation on women to adhere to what they say is beautiful. Making women judge mental and self consciousness about themselves and even judging other woman in a split second. In the book Mrs. Breedlove speaks on the affect the movies had on her,”She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it with some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen” (122). This explains how the media can cause society to be judgmental among their peer and categorize them as either beautiful or ugly. Giving society room to isolate and antagonize the ugly and adore and idolize the beautiful.

This issue has been brought up by many people that blonde hair, blue eyes are used the most in ads and commercials. Giving the understanding of why girls want flawless skin and blue eyes. This outcast women of a different race and makes them feel like they will never meet this perfection. A majority of women of a different completion are implied to be wild and strange. A perfection that there is no way to live up too, and has a major effect on their confidence. In this NFL ad, the girl is white with light sandy blonde hair about shoulder length and quotes “together we make football look stunning”. Implying that everything about her makes football stunning; and without her football would be nothing. Putting a woman back down to a thing and making them lifeless. Kilbourne also talks about how much this is stressed in ads today, but furthermore points out how unrealistic it is. Just take a minute and think even the models are photo’d shopped. So how can a woman compare herself to something unreal? That’s how is has been since the beginning to make them believe that’s how they are supposed to

Beauty is determined by society and their standards. Women are expected to be skinny, pretty and to be a thin size which puts pressure on women. The pressures of society persuade women to go through extreme measures to fit in with society standards. This is evident in the short stories “The Falling girl” and “They’re Not Your Husband” as the main characters are impacted by social expectations, insecurity and peer pressure.

Beauty is determined by society and their standards. Women are told to be skinny, pretty and a size two which puts a lot of pressure on women. The pressures of society allocate women to go through extreme measures to fit in with society standards. This is evident in the short story “The Falling girl” and “They’re Not Your Husband” as the main characters are impacted by social expectations, insecurity and peer pressure.

Fair skin, long hair, light colored eyes, and thin bodies, all categories under the European ideal of beauty. While women who have these features are, of course, beautiful, the media and modeling industry have molded these ideals into the ultimate standard to compare the beauty of millions of women across the world. Whether consumers are flipping through channels on TV or pages of a magazine, European beauty standards are emulated in the actors and models the media cast, and with the rise of social media, these ideals have only become more prevalent. The use of these standards may seem harmless; however, Eurocentric beauty ideals have had devastating effects on both the women who do and do not fit within Eurocentric beauty standards.

This documentary is about a black model named Renee, who resides and tries to make a living in New York City. This is a prime example of how race can be negatively seen in the world of media and fashion. Throughout this documentary, Renee discusses how numerous advertisements for models bluntly state they are “looking for white girls only, not black girls.” Directly from the start, racism is apparent. As the documentary continues statements are made such as agents looking for a “white girl dipped in chocolate”, wanting white girls to look like they have been painted black and casting directors not looking for “black girl features”. The absurdity and naivety from the fashion industry is extremely oppressive and apparent in this example. Statistics such as Fashion week only included 6% black, 6% Asian and 1% Latina women. Yet, another demonstration of the constraints racialization has on

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.

This excerpt shows how more emphasis is put on women’s appearance and its keep up, and also shows the negative connotation of this prettiness; it is associated with shallowness. Not only is there an assumption that women spend much of their time on their appearance, but also there is the connected fact that others pay more attention to their appearance than their other character traits. This is still a reality of today as can be seen on the red carpet. Female celebrities have a whole industry devoted to making them look fashionable and pretty for events. The focus of these events becomes what they’re wearing rather than their work as actresses and singers.