perception of beauty is distorted

The pressure on women to look and behave in certain ways is so deeply ingrained in our psyches that it’s easy to overlook the impact mass culture has on how we feel about ourselves and our bodies. Watching TV, reading magazines and newspapers, surfing the Net, we are bombarded with airbrushed images of perfect beauty and thinness. Inevitably we absorb the relentless message that such beauty is the norm, and is achievable, if only we would … use this makeup, remove that hair, buy the right clothes, reshape that body part.

Many of us know that the unspoken promise -- use our product, and you will get the love, the happiness, or the success you want -- is a lie. Many of us have had long, ongoing struggles to accept our bodies as they are and to make our peace with, and possibly even celebrate, food. Still, there are times our insecurities and self-loathing outweigh our feminist sensibilities, and we need reinforcements to remind us that looks don’t make the woman.

its actually very sad that they do this, it makes certain women that are not super models or something so awesome so that their partner will not like them as much as if they were a super model fake plastic BITCH! i hate the way that the media portrays women they sell certain clothing to make us think they we have to be that skinny to fit in it, wear certain make up and look a certain way in order to be accepted. its sad it really is. 

Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women—and their body parts—sell everything from food to cars. Popular film and television actresses are becoming younger, taller and thinner. Some have even been known to faint on the set from lack of food. Women’s magazines are full of articles urging that if they can just lose those last twenty pounds, they’ll have it all—the perfect marriage, loving children, great sex, and a rewarding career.

truth is none of the women look like that in real life they are all photoshoped and airbrushed its fake ass bullshit and it makes other women that are not printed on a magazine front page or on tv or in popular pictures look bad. it shows men that all women should like this and if they don't they are just another girl. I wish the media who show the real faces of the women instead of making them look like something they are not. 

it truly is discusting no one looks like that unless you have to fix them to look like that, and the one pic with the girl in the mirror thats how being a girl feels. either you are skinny and you feel fat or your fat and you wish you were skinny. nothing is every good enough for the world. you just have to accept yourself for you.