Beauty and Advertising

       Ah yes, the human body, how many ways can one thing be tormented, judged or as Barbara Ehrenreich's article describes filleted, dismembered and trashed. As I continued to read this article talking about the  human body being a play thing towards the media's interpretation I became disgusted. The fact is it wasn't just the grotesque description from Barbara, but the idea that we as a people truly are seeing the body for less that it used to be. Following it up by the reading about Victoria Secret's marketing of the body and beauty was no shock at all. As i continued this reading I realized how the body now wasn't only being a a play thing but a marketing tool that in the end was changing the over all way in-which beauty should be perceived.

       After the reading by Barbara I re-read the article "Only two percent of Women describe themselves as Beautiful".  I found the fact that women can't think of themselves as beautiful is absurd . As i first began to write this I wrote see themselves as beautiful instead of think of and there it is; the underlined idea that beauty is something one sees when in fact its much more or not even relevant to beauty. It was shocking to me that women all of the world were able to describe being beautiful and being physically attractive as something genuinely different from each other. Yet at the same time women felt the need to lessen the idea that they themselves could be beautiful.