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Acceptance
The vision of what is considered beautiful in an individual is always changing as time passes. Women of the 17th century were looked as gorgeous women of their time even though we would look down upon them as obese and unattractive in ours. Most people’s perception of beauty is not how they view themselves, but how others view them. In modern life today we shape how we look, dress, and smell on how others will perceive us.
One of the ways standards are put into people’s heads on the way a person’s image should emulate is, the media. The media is always showing its viewers of what the ideal body should look like. In today’s world everybody is looking at the media, and valued opinions are formed from watching it. Everyday when turning the television on you see a celebrity with this amazing physique and wearing these very glamorous clothes, and people are constantly saying how beautiful and sexy they are. That gives the image of acceptance, and I believe that is what most humans in society strive for from their
peers.
The media in itself controls how we look at ourselves and others around us. Everyday we look in the mirror at our insecurities. We see what we don’t have compared to what the media says we should have. We see what clothes they are wearing, and that makes us want to go purchase that same style of clothing for ourselves. We base our entire appearance on what people we haven’t even met and most likely will never meet, but these people in the media are only one side of the spectrum.
Fashion is a second way in which people try to mold their image. The name in itself says everything, “fashion models”. They are supposed to be models for what
we should wear, and how we should look. We see these “models” as eccentric, beautiful, and what is known by most very petit and skinny. Americans seeing the media and the fashion industry on a daily basis puts into their heads the idea of what should be beautiful, and what will be “accepted” in society.
What a lot of people don’t think about is how we view others. While we are in our rooms trying to reach the peak of perfection for others, what about the people who aren’t? When we see other people in life that seem to be totally unaware of what is ideal for the human figure many people don’t give them what they themselves wanted so hard from everyone else which is recognition. How many times have you seen an extremely over-weight individual, or someone dressed totally foreign from what standards are deemed acceptable by the media, and you hear people in the vicinity making fun or being rude to the person as they walk by. It seems as if the media has a choke hold on how we look at ourselves and even everyone else. We put pressure on ourselves to look our best even if we don’t care or want to, but then we turn around and put pressure on others to follow suit when it seems they aren’t keeping up with the modeling look.
Is it fair for the media to guide our opinions of what is satisfactory and acceptable? We don’t need the media to tell us what we should or should not wear. This is falsifying who the person trying to be recognized actually is. People aren’t themselves when they try and hide behind this fake image of beauty and fashion. We are constantly struggling for this perfection that we will probably never obtain. What we wear should express who we are, not who the media wants us to be. Deep down we are ourselves don’t want to follow this path but we want to follow the crowd because inside the crowd we attain a simulated feeling of acknowledgment, and we believe these people take away our loneliness. Even though, deep within us we are lonely. These people in the media and others around us trying to imitate these ideas of unalienable beauty most likely don’t know who you truly are. They don’t know you might rather just want to wear basketball shorts and a big t-shirt, instead of high heels and a mini dress everyday. A point that also needs to be made is that we don’t have the right, and we should also feel very sympathetic for those that are themselves no matter what. They have broken the cycle that we are still in and want out of. While we are confined to the most trivial attributes in life they are free to express themselves however they see fit. These are the people who should model after, those who are not afraid to be themselves no matter the consequences. They are the ones able to follow their hearts, and in the depths of our heart lies who we are.
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