Sunday, October 5, 2008
Stereotypes
"Women are pressured to have hard bodies and silky hair, along with sparkling white teeth and abs of steel, but where do these stereotypes come from? Is it from the books they read or the schools they go to? Or maybe it's from two of the most popular forms of media today; movies and television." This is a quote summing up the most common form of stereotypes women face when they turn on the television, sit down for a movie, or flip open a magazine. If you have all of these qualities, well then good for you I suppose, but I know that I sure don't have hardly any of them, but I am pretty happy with myself. My question is exactly that from the quote-where did these stereotypes come from? Yes, they are unavoidably seen in the media, but where did the people behind the media come up with such stereotypes? Who stood up and said "This is what I think we should make beauty look like, so let us make all the women set this ridiculous standards for themselves." Yeah, I doubt it, too. Every woman is different. If we all held each and everyone of these stereotypical qualities of beauty the world would be a boring, and in my opinion, an ugly place. Curves are what make women's bodies so wondrous, not lumps of hard muscles everywhere. What do you think and how do you react to these stereotypes when you are faced with them? http://media.www.quchronicle.com/media/storage/paper294/news/2005/02/16/Commentary/Stereotypes.Of.Women.Are.Widespread.In.Media.And.Society-865192.shtml
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The article mentions at the end how actresses like Jessica Simpson are paid to look perfect and beautiful but that normal people shouldn't hold themselves to those standards. Well of course normal women don't have to/shouldn't, but I don't think Jessica Simpson should either. Paying a woman to look perfect and perpetuate impossible standards is just as wrong. Actresses shouldn't have to look perfect to star in movies or be placed farther from the camera to look younger. When a character on tv wakes up in the morning, she hardly has bedhead and wakes up with neat, precise eyeliner, it's just not realistic. I don't want normal women to realize they don't have to look this way, I want Hollywood to realize that protraying people that way is stupid and just stop it at the source.
Hollywood portrays females to be "Barbies" basically. if they look like Jessica Simpson, they are alright! It just goes to show how non-accepting our world really is. Why are women pressured so much to look a certain way? The media has a lot to do with it. But like you asked, what else? What is behind all this pressure for a women to look a certain way? Im not totally sure what it is. Could it have to do with most women being self conscious and feeling if they look a certain way people would except them more?
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