Look at me, I’m beautiful and I don’t have the perfect, proportionate nose. Look at me, I’m beautiful and I don’t have an hourglass figure. Look at me, I’m beautiful, and I don’t have the clearest skin. My legs aren’t the longest, my hips aren’t that wide, clothes aren’t the coolest. But i am still beautiful. My hair may not be as curly as hers, my stomach not as flat… But… , I’m still beautiful. According to a study by the Girl Scouts of America in 2010, out of over 1000 adolescent girls surveyed, 88% of the girls believe that the media puts a lot of pressure on them to be thin and 65% believe that the body image represented in the fashion industry and in the media is too skinny, and 60% said they compare their body to what they see in magazines.
The media extends beauty standards to where people are trying to be something they’re not instead of being satisfied with who they are. So now, let’s prepare our hair and makeup backstage by providing background information on how beauty standards have been used since forever. Then we’ll strut down the runway as we show off some fancy examples on how the media influences beauty standards today. And finally, take off all the clothes, hair and makeup, by revealing what true beauty is.
Beauty standards have been around since the beginning of time, however, it has evolved tremendously over the course time. In various times in the past and today, beauty standards have been used as propaganda to make you think that you need to look a certain way in order be perceived as pretty or acceptable in society. From things like Jim Crow where they portrayed african americans as inferior to other races, to the Nazi’s “aryan race” where they portrayed the perfect German as blond haired and blue- eyed. We should consider some present adjustments in America. In the 70s, excellence principles for ladies used to be the voluptuous group of superstars like Marilyn Monroe to the excessively thin, ‘level chested’ body molded typified by models as in Twiggy or Kate Moss.
The truth is that similarly as ladies made colossal changes in instruction, business and legislative issues, the typical body compose ladies developed started to look unfortunate, delicate, and fragile. Ladies may have started to increment in flexibility and power, however they were progressively impacted to rebuff their bodies through eating regimen and exercise to comply with inclining body composes that were relatively difficult to accomplish.
Our society is constantly changing and as a result, so are these standards. And because of how our economy is changing, so are the ways that we see ourselves. One of the newest and most popular ways that we view ourselves, is social media.
Web-based social networking or social media has for some time been hailed for championing decent variety, an appreciated asylum from the frequently homogeneous broad communications. Be that as it may, nowadays, individuals, specifically young ladies, are progressively endeavoring to look the same — on the stage and, in actuality.
‘For adolescents [in particular], looking great (as characterized by standards of one’s social gathering and the guidelines of social commitment) is quite often a need,’ Dr. Pamela Rutledge, chief of the Media Psychology Research Center, disclosed to The Post. ‘It used to be an issue of not having any desire to get captured out in broad daylight not looking great; but rather the scope of what’s open has moved.’
Media assumes a mind-boggling part in our reasoning, just by volume and redundancy alone. As per look into done by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, by 2015 we will devour a normal of 15 hours of media daily. 15 hours per day! A large number of the messages that we are besieged with need to do with excellence, and the media pictures and messages about magnificence are normally unattainable.
The reason for media publicizing is to make a benefit. The way numerous organizations do this is to misuse disappointment and frailties about things we have or don’t have, and about our bodies themselves. As per Roy A. Cui, a Photoshop proficient, ‘Anything that you find in print… these have been controlled.’ Advertisers and companies use these unrealistic beauty standards for their own profit. They don’t care about how these unattainable standards affect our people, all they care about is if we’re consuming their products which we are.
We’re striving to look a certain way for what? For a number of likes? Followers? For recognition? And the effects of this internal disease are unbearable. Epidemiological investigations have recommended that the occurrence of dietary issues among young ladies has expanded throughout the most recent 50 years. The detailed predominance rate for anorexia nervosa is 0.48% among young ladies 15 to 19 years of age. Around 1% to 5% of pre-adult young ladies meet the criteria for bulimia nervosa (1). Today, like never before, teenagers are inclined to worries about their weight, shape, size and self-perception, and therefore, eating routine to get thinner (2– 5). Little is thought about how these self-perception and weight-related concerns emerge. These practices have been recommended as conceivable hazard factors for the advancement of dietary problems and media has played a key factor in these issues.
Who characterizes excellence, who gets the opportunity to choose what is lovely and what isn’t? What is the criteria to be wonderful, and where are the necessities? The truth is that it doesn’t exist. The banality is that beauty comes from inside. Indeed, we as a whole originate from various shapes and sizes, diverse religions and societies, distinctive spirits and unique beliefs. Unique—that is what we are, so how might we mark one particular thing as beautiful?
To be beautiful, you have to love yourself, be agreeable in your skin and in particular, acknowledge your identity. Indeed, taking a look at media and even at our companions influences us to feel like we are not that sort of pretty that is named society’s meaning of the word. However, it doesn’t imply that we are not. To be beautiful is doing what you have constantly needed and not letting anything hold you back. Being beautiful originates from seeing the positive qualities in individuals when their outside shouts out vicious. Being beautiful originates from having the capacity to be solid at our most reduced focuses, looking past the comments, the ‘you can’t,’ and taking everything as a grain of salt. A gathering of this all means we are lovely to be ourselves, to be solid and to roll out an improvement, for us individually, and for others. Our qualities and our ascent is beautiful, so who is the media to tell to us we’re not?
