From: Katelin
Physical
attractiveness is very important in our culture especially for women. I have always felt pressured by society to meet
their standard of beauty as a female so I can be accepted and desired, even as
a young girl. The only way females are
made to feel accepted is by applying tons of make-up to hide “flaws”, diet to
maintain a petite size, spend a lot of money on their apparel, and alienate
anyone superior than beautiful. The
camera looking down on me, and the mirror I am looking into symbolizes
societies view on me. If I do not meet their beauty standard I am ridiculed,
made to be an outcast, and bullied. Society is telling me if I am not
physically attractive like those women in the photos I am not beautiful,
feminine, or desirable. As you see, I am looking up at pictures from magazine then looking in the mirror trying to perfect
myself, hiding my flaws so I can look like the girls in the photos. I am in a robe looking from the mirror to
photos because that is another aspect of my appearance needing to be approved
by the images I see on the wall, pretty much looking to them before I get
dressed to see how I should look so I can fit into societies norm. I took the photo with my back to the camera not
showing my face because it would limit this image to just one female trying to
appear as the women in media but its actually the faces of many young women
around the world who look to unattainable images of the women in magazines to
try and look like them for societies approval.
2 comments:
I think that this photo explains 90% of teenage girls in the world. They are all going to want to look like models, because models are shown as being "happy" and can easily find their prince charming because they are "flawless". Just look at the magazine pictures on the wall, they are all smiling big, with their "perfect" white teeth. In this photo I find it very interesting that the girl is in the corner of the room, and is confined to only looking at the mirror, the makeup, and the models. Also, the fact that the door is closed shows that she has no choice to try to look like the models before she walks out of the door, which also shows that she's constricted and not powerful.
This photo stood out to me because I think not only myself, but also almost every girl I know can relate to what is portrayed in this picture in some sort of way. All of the magazine clippings on the wall that demonstrate beauty standards are a prime example of the society that young women grow up in today. The media, such as magazines, gives such fine lines for young girls to put themselves in, therefore causing young women to sit and stare at themselves in the mirror, and “fix themselves” until they are one step closer to looking like the women in the magazines do.
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