This article (click the post title) discusses teens' obsession with their image and weight. In conjunction with the article I found this cool flash video about "real beauty." (If you are unable to view it here, you can go to YouTube and search "dove" and "evolution.") I bet you watch it more than once!
I'd like to know what you think about the claims in this article and the movie clip online. Also, do you think these unrealistic expectations are different for boys and girls? If so, why? At what point in a person's life does "beauty"discrimination start?
Friday, December 08, 2006
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I found that the Dove movie clip was very interesting!! It teaches you a lot about reality, that not everything you see on t.v. or billboards is really what the people look like!
I think that girls have more expectations for themselves
compared to boys. In general girls "inspect" themselves more than boys.
I think that people start to discriminate themselves beauty when they start loosing confidence. If you are not confident, than you won't be confident about yourself!
I tought the movie clip was very cool and i think its better that we get to watch a video instead of just reading an article. And i think that girls have way more expectations because they always concerned about their bodys and stuff. I think people start to discriminate beauty when they get into peep pressure and are not comfortable with their bodys.
I thought the dove video was very cool. It was cool to see how much different people are in advertisements than in real life. I think girls have more pressure with so much women models and the pressure to be beautiful much more girls have eating disorders than girls. People start discriminating themselves when they see other beautiful people they usually asks themselves "What do I have to do to look them." Which makes them want to change themselves. Sometimes with surgery.
I honestly think that this clip is amazing, i showed both my friend and my mom and dad and they were both shocked on how much effort that these people would actually do to make someone look perfect, i mean seriously no one is perfect. I would honsestly feel so much less confident about my self if i found out that someone would actually change that much about me to make them look good and make me look perfect.
The Dove clip was awesome. I showed it to my mom and sister and they liked it, too.
Girls seem to be more obsessed with their weight than guys but I have seen many guys become obsessed. For example, when my cousin was in wrestling, he was constantly losing or gaining weight each year and it seemed crazy. It may be different for boys and girls but its definitely unhealthy, either way.
I think that "beauty" discrimination can start at any age because my little sister came home crying because another girl at school was making fun of her and I had to jump in and give big sister advice and comfort. It hurt to see that even 5th graders could be so harsh.
I loved the Dove/Evolution video because it shows you that all the models in magazines, posters, billboards and more have to be touched up just to look like they do in pictures.In reality, half of the models do not look a thing like they do in the picture.
I think girls have more expectations for themselves because girls are more insecure,and care about how they look more than guys.I think people start to discriminate beauty when they start feeling insecure about themselves and care about how they look on the outside.
I loved the video it shows everyone that the people we find some of the most gorgeous in life aren't as pretty as they appear. I think girls have to live up to more expectations than boys, but maybe that's because to girls sometimes whats on the outside matters a lot. I think that beauty discrimation starts at around 4th grade.
Last year when my little sister was in 3rd grade she was constantly crying over how "fat" she was. It's pretty sad how shallow people have become these days.
I thought the clip was great too, I did watch it more than ounce, it shows how you see people in magazines really is'nt how they look. The said thing is manny people don't think their good enough pretty enough, thats what all this is doing. But most important you should like them all for looks, it should depend on if their nice to you, don't lie someone you can trust thats what all the adds comercials are killing.
i think the clip is a little exteam. i think if people didnt do so much to try to make them selves look better them we wouldnt have an ugly. when everybody starts look so beutiful and pretty, we get use to it. if we did get use to it, them there wouldnt be a need to look better. people are always competing with them selvs and others to look the best. we should be happy with who we are and keep change to a minimum
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