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Define beauty. Define perfection. Define impossible. |
Look around you. Take a drive and gaze at the billboards. Listen to the commercails on the radio as you travel on this little adventure. To be completely honest, you don't even need to leave your house. Turn on the TV, read the newspaper or a magazine. Perhaps you have given up on modern applainces and you never learned how to read. In that case, just open your shower and look on the back of a shampoo or conditionner bottle. What do you see? Beautiful women and sexual innuendos? On the drive to school every morning, my eyes fall upon a billboard that reads "Spend some time with a well endowed model". Now without the picture that goes with the saying, can you figure out what this might be advertising? Neither can I but it's actually trying to sell a new neighborhood of town houses. Does that seem right to you? The impression we're leaving on children is that sex is okay, it's the norm. But sayings like that and the numerous others that have been conjured by advertising companies are only encouraging males to use such sayings towards women. I would prefer to be able to go to a public place and not get checked out and hit on. But sex isn't the only thing advertisements are pounding into our heads. Beauty is another thing. Beauty is defined as something excellent of it's kind. That means beauty is not sex appeal, it's something that sets you apart from everyone else. So if everyone is trying to be sexy, are they really beautiful? I was reading a shampoo bottle one day and the company's slogan was "Say yes to beauty without paying the price". What exactly is the price of beauty? The price of make-up and clothes to make you more sexually appealing? I don't believe so. You are born beautiful. Everyone is beautiful because everyone is their own kind. People should not be taught that if you aren't appealing sexually than you have no chance at life. You have every chance to live your life to the fullest. You don't need make-up or revealing clothing to make it in the world. You only need youself. Let's ask the advertising companies what their objective is. Do they want to teach children that sex is everything. Sex should not be selling everything from body wash to candy bars. Sex should not be selling anything. I've come to realize that some of the more G rated commercails are condom commercails. Atleast they are promoting safety. Beside that, we need to stop defining beauty as something that it's not. 8 year old girls do not need to be worrying if they're fat and 5 year olds should not be putting on eyeshadow. What happened to letting children make their own desicions? If we could let the world grow up without advertising, there could be a world with less suicide and eating disorders. Girls need to stop trying to reach "perfection". Perfection is nonexsistent. |