Airbrushed to Fake Perfection
Perfection is a state of completeness and flawlessness.
In society today we constantly have this word ‘perfection’ thrown in our blemished faces. When did reality slip through our fingers? When did we start hating the reflection in the mirror? When did we start basing our self-worth on the way we looked?
Now in the twenty-first century perfection seems to be within our grasps. With a click of a button woman can say goodbye to her cellulite, no more unwanted love handles… she can even give herself a tan! The only problem with this form of ‘perfection’ is that it’s fake.
What am I talking about? I’m talking about the millions of airbrushed and photoshopped models in magazines that we see every day. Who decided that our natural state of being wasn’t good enough? The standard of perfection in the twenty-first century is staggering. Magazine and media companies continue to mislead us, continue to brainwash us into thinking that if we were just a bit thinner, more toned or taller, then society would accept us…
Young impressionable girls flick hungrily through fashion magazines, soaking up every page. The problem arises when they look in the mirror, and what is looking back at them is not in fact an airbrushed perfect image but a normal body with flaws. Women have been so conditioned by the media as to what a woman’s body should look like, that a deep hatred for one’s own body can be formed. Once that hatred takes root, it becomes hard to get rid of. Thus begins the cycle of self-loathing, eating disorders and yo-yo dieting.
Back in the 1950’s a voluptuous figure was considered attractive, just look at Marilyn Monroe, she was an icon! Since then the woman’s body has been cut up, chewed and spat out, the result, something half starved.
How do we fight back? What can we do to change society’s peculiar need for perfection?
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