I want to write a blog about how we view beauty. The different perceptions of beauty. What constitutes a good looking person? Is it conditioning that teaches up what is beautiful? What part does the media play when discerning what is beautiful or not( i think we are all familiar with hype)? If the media plays a significant role in the way we judge the standards of beauty, how will it effect us when all of magazine cover are photoshopped? How can we live up to the standards when the selected few that are supposedly the standards of beauty can even get on a cover with out being photoshopped? How will our standards of beauty change with the passing of time? If we look at the old greek statues we see full figured women portrayed as goddess and now we are obsessed with tiny figured women like Megan Fox. As time progresses will we one day be infatuated with full figured women again? And also a good way to see perceptions of beauty being conditioned instead of born with we can see cultural changes through out history and different cultures, thus proving that beauty is relative to the lens of your current surrounding culture.
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I think that the media has a lot to do with how we as a society define beauty. Like you said, advertisement companies manipulate already beautiful people to their idea of perfection. Since the media plays such a large role in our lives it can make a big impact on our thinking. Even though media hasn’t always been this large, there have still been people and images throughout the different eras that have set a standard for everyone.
ReplyDeleteI’m interested to see how beauty is defined in the future. How we try to portray ourselves in order to be attractive today are so much different than they ever have been. Our generation is pretty much the next transformation (maybe not drastically) in how we perceive beauty from the 90s. I wonder if people’s perceptions change with each decade because it seems like our clothing styles and other things that influence beauty have.
As you've gotten older, have you found your own ideas of what and who is beautiful changing? I've found that as I ge older, I am less and less interested in the twiggy, model conception of female beauty and would much prefer a non-wispy, healthy woman with some curves. That said, I also tend to focus more on facial beauty than I used to.
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