Today I read an article called “The Truth About Beauty”. This article tells about Dove and their effort to give women and young girls self-esteem and cultural transformation. They call this the “Campaign for Real Beauty” and say that it is “a global effort that is intended to serve as a starting point for societal change and act as a catalyst for widening the definition and discussion of beauty. Instead of saying that their products will magically make you beautiful and now people will love you they tell people that the definition of beauty is just something the media created and in fact, everyone is beautiful. Instead of having stick skinny anorexic models in their advertisements they use ordinary everyday women of every shape, size, and ethnicity and show that everyone is beautiful in their own way. I think that what they are doing is really good and can show younger girls that you don’t have to be skin and bones and you can still be beautiful. I think that in the future what they are doing can prevent girls from resorting to eating disorders and can show them that everyone has something that makes them unique and beautiful. For my next article I want to look up something either about tanning and how bad it is but people think that the tanner you are the prettier you are. Or, I want to look up something about makeup and how big the industry is and it’s all about appearance.
Postrel, Virginia. "The Truth About Beauty." Atlantic Monthly (10727825) 299.2 (2007): 125-127. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Apr. 2011.
So many girls and even boys these days are going to extreme measures to make their apperance mirror that of people shown in magazines and on tv. Media is corrupting society's youth.
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