Beauty in the media.

The media is highly influential on society today, it shapes the views that people have on how they should look, act and feel.
It's natural as you're growing up to feel insecure and for your confidence to waver regarding your looks, naturally you grow up looking to the media and the men and women on the front of magazines as role models.
We look at all these magazine covers and see all these perfect, airbrushed women with not a lump or bump in the wrong place, perfect hair, perfect skin, and we are left feeling bad about how we look, how we can't ever measure up to them, and then we are left feeling inadequate and downright ugly.

This photo is a prime example of airbrushing and twisting of the media. The photo of the woman on the left has been manipulated an incredible amount, but why?
She looks  absolutely beautiful in the photo which has not been airbrushed, what is the point in trying to fix something which doesn't need fixing.

Come on, get a grip, it's giving the youth impressionable people of today an unrealistic view of what women actually look like, even if you're a size 6, if you pull that back-twisting pose then I'm sorry sweet cheeks, but that is how the female body sits.
This contributes to triggering people with eating disorder, giving people the impression that this sort of body is achievable, this is not how the body is supposed to look, airbrushed to cover everything, instead of spending so much money and time changing real women to look how they're not, the media needs to embrace women, embrace how they are.

Instead of spending so much money on campaigns to "find the new you", society needs to start campaigning to show women that they are how they are, love themselves, they don't need to lose weight to fit in with societies messed up idealizations of perfection, if anything, people should only lose weight for their health.

Women are beautiful, whether they are "boyish" "curvy" "apple" "pear" "skinny", these are all just words for beautiful, you don't have to have pert or big breasts to be a women, some people are naturally small framed, but equally, you don't have to be slim and slender to avoid the labelling of "fat" and "lazy".

Seriously, society really is truly blind, what would be so wrong with printing photos of natural women, they really are beautiful, they are real, and that is what the women of today want to see, they want to see real women, ones that they can relate to, and ones that aren't airbrushed to the point they look like a lollipop.

There are women in society who we perceive to be real, who we can identify with, and whom we respect for standing up and saying "yeah, maybe I do have a fuller figure, and what?".
One of these is Kim Kardashian, she is very pretty, has a relatively good sense of style, the majority of the time, and a lot of people look up to her, but society really can't handle that can they?

I don't know about you, but i can see absolutely nothing wrong with the photo on the left, i'm pretty sure if she was walking along on the beach she would turn quite a few heads.
At the end of the day, all it comes down to, is selling, if a magazine shows an airbrushed itsy bitsy perfect woman on the front cover, and in big bold print there's a caption from an article promising you this brilliant body which basically means you will therefore have a perfect life, perfect boyfriend, perfect brains, perfect friends, you will perfect and everybody will want you; then people are generally going to read it. They're going to buy the magazine, they're going to read the article, probably try the months worth of extortionate shakes at £80 a pop, lose 5 pounds, realise how miserable it is, never try that fad diet again, get drawn in by another magazine, another diet, another perfect, but of course 100% unattainable, beach perfect body, and repeat the cycle again.
Who cares? It's how economy works today, print to sell.
Who even cares what's printed, as long as it brings in readers and money, they don't really care about the readers, but need to pretend to, because at the end of the day, readers mean money.

We have all been given such tainted role models since we were very young, the favorite being Barbie, but if you look at the photo to the right, you can see how the average woman looks in comparison to the proportions of Barbie. If a woman were to have those proportions she would look so bizarre, she would most definitely not look like the average woman that you see walking down the street, yet from the age of 2 when you receive your first Barbie doll, we see all of the women of today as fat, they are fat, imperfect and abnormal, when really, Barbie is not normal.







The media is run by society, and it has a duty of society, stop making everybody feel so bad about themselves, get rid of all these fake women, real women, that is exactly what real people want to see.