Saturday, March 24, 2007

plastic surgeries and the media

Media is a very influential aspect in our everyday lives. One of the aspects that media had influenced our perspective about is the way we approach beauty. The media had always preferred using female figures with perfect or gorgeous looks in order to get their messages delivered. In most movies the actresses are thin having perfect teeth, hair, skin etc. most women get really affected and they even go through severe depressions because they start feeling ugly as they don’t meet the criteria that is portrayed through out the media. In addition, the men or here the husbands that even used to find their wives or their girlfriends or whatever attractive or pretty doesn’t feel the same as before after being exposed to the extra ordinary beauty that are in the magazines and on TV the whole time. As a result they start showing less interest in their wives and unintentionally they start the comparisons in their minds. So these women don’t find any alternatives other than plastic surgeries. Moreover, nowadays surgeries are so much more common since the media encourages them the whole time. As they show the results of those plastic fantastic surgeries with popular celebrities that women look up to. In addition, other than the celebrities the media encourages plastic surgeries by other means, for example, is “the swan” they convert very ordinary women to very attractive and appealing women, which gives hope to other women with similar conditions. As we can see nowadays lots of women that don’t suffer from any physical issues and are considered of average beauties still seek plastic surgeries as a result of the propaganda that is caused by the media

1 comment:

Bana said...

I agree with you, media is what sets our beauty standards of our time. With out media, we would be still waering old dresses that are really out of fashion.