Blog 27: Intro Paragraph

In our society today there is a remarkable amount of pressure placed on us to be “beautiful” and “perfect”. This pressure not only comes from the media; but also from our peers, magazines, advertisements and even our own family members.  I’m fairly confident that each and every one of you reading this paper have at one point or another in your life, had a negative view of your body and wanted to change something about yourself. This pressure to be perfect and beautiful has lead men and women alike to put their bodies at risk in order to fit the mold of what we think we should be.  People do this by:  using tanning beds, bulimia, anorexia, extreme dieting, plastic surgery and using of makeup. Individuals are embarrassed of the way that they look and are afraid to be themselves.  Women won’t leave the house without makeup on because they are afraid that someone will think they’re ugly, we do harm to our bodies because we think it will make us more attractive, people change who they are because they think that they will be better liked, people go on diets and starve themselves because they want to be skinnier and they believe being skinny makes you pretty.  It’s really sad to see the extremes that individuals in our country today will go in order to fit the mold of what we are told is pretty and accepted.  It’s unattainable beauty, but everyone’s out to get it.  

If anyone has any ideas of anything else I should add or take out please let me know!