As a young girl myself, I have found that the increasing focus of the media and advertisements on the "real" woman is uplifting.
I have grown up in a time where a size two is still too large, and am really disgusted with that fact. I wish I could say that this phenomenon has had no effect on me, but of course it has. I find myself some days being extremely self-critical instead of loving my body and appreciating what makes me stand out. We as women see these advertisements with sickly skinny models and punish ourselves because we don't look that way. The mindset and self-image of women today has been drastically changed by the increase in technology and its speedy effect. Today's woman "is not being compelled to bind her feet, she does it willingly.” Since we have more freedoms as women now than the women of the foot binding age did, we may choose what to wear and how to look. But, we choose wrong by basing our choices on what is portrayed by the media as what we “should” look like.
“Women have had enough of not finding themselves in the ads they look at.” I am so pleased to find all kinds of beauty being appreciated and recognized now. In Mainstream. This gives me great hope for our future. Maybe we will become less self centered and shallow and learn to appreciate the true beauty of a woman.
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