Women are set such a high standards when it comes to society’s expectations because “average” just doesn’t cut it. Most women these days are expected to look, dress and act a certain way that they normally wouldn’t intend on doing. Women feel pressured on trying to dress more feminine, as they feel, based on society’s expectations, that this is the only way men will feel more sexually attracted to them. Also another reason is that most women also try competing against other women just too simply get more attention. Partially in saying that, women mostly feel the need to make themselves look good because they themselves see them only being attracted to the good looking guys and the only way they think of trying to do this, is by using their looks as a part of attracting the opposite gender.
Clearly the way to get beautiful women is to ignore them, perhaps mistreat them" (272). The ad Kilbounre is describing is similar to the picture in the Bebe ad, and she is trying to make women see just how degrading these images are. The woman in the Bebe ad is very desperately attempting to get the man's attention by leaning on him and focusing her attention on him, but he doesn't seem interested. The image is posed like that to show superiority and power that men supposedly have over women. This teaches women that they need to constantly dote on the man, whether he pays attention or not.
I do agree with Drevno in this article. It seems like everybody is trying to look like the ideal figure, but as we all know the majority is not ideal so we try to become that attractive figure that we think everybody wants. Drevno says in her article “Everywhere you look you will find images of women and men who typify what our society considers “beautiful”(P.2). What that quote means is that “unreal” beauty is all around us because our world believes that that is the true meaning of beauty when according to Drevno it is not. A friend of mine named Moe, was in a sense overweight and he didn’t like it because of what other people thought about it.
These commercial include good looking male models in their commercials to get the female viewers attention. The commercial could have a sexual subliminal message without the knowledge of the female viewer and finally, they use transitions of romantic scenes in their commercials to help calm the viewers. A well-shaped, good looking model is seen while the Old Spice commercials are on air. The model is usually a young, healthy male specimen who would catch the attention of young ladies. The model would have that perfect body that the female race would consider “the dream body” The celebrity tend to have clothing on in the beginning of the commercial but seconds later end up only having pants and even tower on.
In my opinion, Americans tend to think that their appearance is everything and go to great measures to get their desired looks. I also believe that people in society are always trying too hard to make them self look like their ideal celebrity. I feel that men and women have different standards when it comes to appearance and how they view it. I also agree with Nancy Hellmich in her article, “Do Thin Models Warp Girls Body Image?” as she says that girls are becoming skinnier and skinnier as the years go by. I think as society tends to focus on their appearance more, it also becomes more dangerous.
The ideal of beauty has become a form of oppression by men and also self-oppression. This makes women feel inferior because they can never achieve the perfect image. Women are always disapproving every part of their bodies, scrutinizing every imperfection. Women are looked at by the different parts of their bodies while men are looked at as a whole. For example, the word “butterface”, which means overall the woman is attractive “but her face”.
Is he a reliable resource, or an unreliable narrator whose creditability is compromised by his point of view and stereotyping? We can assume some trust because it also seems in the story that society has created a stereotype in which he must follow to meet a female companion based on where he is from and his financial status. He also implies that girls are smart, which is one of the reasons why he is doing so much to improve his chances of having relations with girls. Furthermore, he is being sympathetic towards their social label by giving the girls the credit they deserve. It is important to note that Junot Diaz covers a large variety of races, and his inclusion of many types of people shows a consistent trend of unjustified labels.
The people think aggressiveness and toughness as cool and beloved for men where as women are an object or representation of sex. When this issue is reversed, where men are the objective for sex whereas women are representing toughness, our world, then, is absurd. As a sexist society, our modern world HAS made people believe that certain types of entertainments are not to be done by one specific gender. In order to learn the consequence of this violence in daily life, our modern society should inherit some outside effects such as calm classical music or non-aggressive songs from Asia or around the
Men: Afflicted; Obsessed; Silently suffering. Society has always objectified women but as we move forward into a culture of masculinity, we see that men are plagued too. The obsessions can lead to extreme measures as seen in Ted Spiker’s article, “How Men Really Feel about Their Bodies,” where he argues that men in today’s society have grown equally concerned about their bodies and share common ideals are but are driven by different forces. Spiker goes beyond social silence and voices the “8 Fundamental Truths” that men need society to know about. Confidence, good looks, and health are motivational forces that feed the hunger for a better body (555).
", "Do I look fat? ", and "Do I look horrible?" This is normally because they do not feel good about how they look that day, which is because of pressure from the media to look perfect. The pictures and images we are supposed to look like which are shown in the eyes of the media are thin, big chested women and attractive built men. Most of these images are digitally altered.