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Women, on the other hand, we tend to look at our bodies in parts. "Oh, my nose is too big," "My hips are too big," "My butt's too small," etc.

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I think that this is an EXTREMELY significant part of women in today's society. Has anyone ever heard of the "Beauty Myth"?? Well it is pretty much this ideal that is created that reduces women to only their looks. No matter where you go, where you look, you're always being involved in this whether you are aware of it or not. The beauty myth tells us what to think of other women, it tells us who they are, and how we should treat them. It implies that when it comes to beauty women must want to embody it, and men must want to posses women who embody it. This is where the media comes in. They create all these ads, or television shows, or WHATEVER with the "ideal" women in them. Then they create this idea that beauty is directly linked to sexuality. And it is through the media that it "teaches" us how to be men and women, teaches us how we should feel about the opposite sex, and what we should be looking for. This is all created for an extremely heterosexual audience, and I think that somewhere along the way, people who are not strictly heterosexual are kind of lost in a sense because everything that they've learned about how they should be feeling isn't necessarily true for them.

And also as it was mentioned before, there are ads of women EVERYWHERE. Womens magazines, men's magazine, you can't get away from this. But what is ironic is women constitute the majority of sales in the media. It is women's money who is contributing to magazines, soaps, television, and yet it is us who is constantly misrepresented. Although i will say that I am glad to see the comercials with "curvier" women in them .. i think its really important for this image to be more publized because it is more realistic. Being super skinny is part of the genetic makeup and so you have people out there who are trying to become a part of this image, yet it is genetically impossible for some.

Anyways, sorry i didn't mean to go on for this long, but i guess what i just wanted to say was that the way the media is portraying women is just ... well its getting to be too much, and it certainly isn't helping people think for themselves. Its instilling images in people's minds of what is "right" and i think that somewhere along there is where all of this confusion comes in.