Persuasive Speech On Beauty

Looks don’t matter, beauty is only skin-deep, you’re beautiful just the way you are. How many times have we heard this, yet we live in a society that appears to contradict this very idea. If looks don’t matter then why do women and girls live in a society where their bodies define who they are? If looks don 't matter then why is airbrushing used by the media to hide any flaws a person has? What exactly is causing this, why do we feel like we are just not beautiful the way we are? Its the media. It’s because the media promotes a certain body image as being beautiful, and it’s a far cry from the average woman’s size 12. The media may be great for entertainment but it also has the power to destroy a woman 's confidence and self-esteem. Young women are bombarded with this unrealistic standard everyday and everywhere. It gives them a goal that is impossible to reach and the effects are devastating. What is even worse is that society has become so accepting of the idea that size 2 is what defines beauty and perfection. And that needs to change.

The typical teenage girl wakes up each day and immediately opens her phone or electronic device to get online and check her various social media apps. During that time, she will start her day being bombarded with hundreds, maybe thousands of images of females throughout her day. In addition to social media, TV and magazine ads are using impossible standards of beauty to try to convince young girls that if they buy their products, they can achieve these levels of beauty and perfections. Because of these “flawless images” of perfect women, this can cause some girls to develop very negative feelings about their own appearance and it can sometimes lead to major health issues. Research and studies have suggested that when girls see all these ads

A wise person once said “we never notice the beauty because we are too busy trying to create it”. With social media promoting the idea that a beautiful woman is flawless, it is hard for women to feel good about themselves. From a young age to late adulthood, women constantly struggle to look beautiful in our culture’s eyes. One of the biggest issues we face is the use of photoshop. Magazines and billboards edit their models so much that it hardly looks like the model when the editing is completed. It is time to teach girls that what they do for society is far greater than how they look to society. It is time to stop hating our flaws and start embracing them. It is time to promote natural beauty rather than dwell on the impossible task of attaining

Chapter 19 Fighting Beauty Sickness, quick write September 19th I talked about media literacy and how it “is very important because it teaches people that not everything you see is real. All the models are mostly photoshopped, maybe have eating disorders and have a shame of eating. It is a great awareness to know the types of messages women’s beauty are exposed to and what the explicit and implicit arguments in these messages are… being critical of media images of women is a great start, but it is no guarantee that a person will not find themselves stuck in a social comparison downward spiral”. My experience after learning media literacy is how I am very grateful to educate myself with this information and how there is videos, documentaries

Seventy percent of girls just ages fifteen to seven-teen suffer from low self-esteem. There are so many people that suffer from low self-esteem when there are things we could do to help them but we don’t. Furthermore, overly photoshopped images are one of the largest contributors to low self-esteem issues. Seventy-eight percent of 17 year old girls want to be thinner. Seventy-eighty percent!! That is almost ¾ of 17 year old girls that think that they need to be skinnier because of the pictures in magazines. Therefore, exposing very impressionable children leaves them more vulnerable to low self-esteem or even an eating

Fashion magazines, general women?s magazine and advertisements for beauty products use Photoshop regularly and emphatically to make woman look thin, blemish free, and generally aligned with the familiar American standard of female beauty. By featuring digitally altered woman on their covers and within throughout their pages, these media outlets are promoting this unattainable standard of beauty to woman all over the country on mass. By using Photoshop to erase any fat that might exist on a woman?s arms or thighs and any wrinkle under a woman?s eyes, they create a landscape in which woman rarely see images of other woman who look like them or anyone they know in the media. This use of digital manipulation creates a lack of real images of real women associated with beauty. According the video lecture What Is Culture, a major role of popular culture is to ?give you identity what it needs when it needs it? and the fashion media is failing is failing to do this for American women (J., 2009).

Beauty is on the inside, not the outside. One of the most well-known sayings in the world and today our shallow society still cares more about our looks rather than our personalities. The media wants society to look their best and strive for perfection. Why is it that every magazine displayed in the shops have models Photoshopped from head to toe? Why is it that unrealistic perfect body types are promoted all over the media, so young women start to believe they must be slim or they will not be perfect? How many young girls have started harming themselves because they cannot reach the impossible standards of beauty? The media needs to stop this now before it is too late. Promoting healthy living and encouraging girls to be confident with who they are on the outside and inside could change a lot of lives for the better.

In today's society the picture of beauty is a rail thin super model with the body of a goddess posted on billboards all around the world. Children are brought up playing with Barbie dolls with the body measurements of would be 39, 18, 38. Because of these pictures and other figures of beauties projected all over, today teenagers are convinced to believe that to be beautiful and happy they must look like these images. According to a survey by Bliss Magazine, Four in ten teenage girls have considered plastic surgery and two thirds of the 2,000 girls quizzed, average age 14, said the pressure came from celebrities with perfect bodies and boys. (BBC news)

The topic of body image is an issue that we see amongst many adolescents all around the world. This huge issue can be dealt by adults but the main victim of body imaging are adolescents. Everywhere, anyone goes, there is example of what society considers “beautiful.” Even if someone is not completely studying it, their subconscious is still registering all of the images and words to what society thinks is a perfect body. Everyday there are people that walk by magazines in stores, drive by billboards with models, and watch television commercials with the skinny girl or buff guy. It is just something people see in their everyday life and is something that is hard to get away from. With all of the hints here and there, it is hard to not think about your own self-image and lose a little bit of self-esteem. Adolescents are more vulnerable to getting self-conscious because that is when we as humans are starting to figure out our own bodies, so when these young adults see a skinny girl on the cover of a magazine with the words “beautiful” or “hot” next to them, they start to question if they can fit in those categories.

We live in a society where the media control us by using television, the Internet, radio, magazines, and even celebrities to shaped our views on what is considered beautiful. By creating advertisements with unrealistic images of beauty and use of plastic surgery, cosmetics, photoshop, and name brand items the media purposely targets our youth. Selling its idealisms to teenagers and young adults who struggle with low self-esteem, low self- confidence, and depression thus taking advantage of his or her weakness as a sole purpose to increase profits. The media is constantly sending us conveying messages that if you don’t have this and don’t look like this or act like that no one will accept you. The media trying to normalize reprehensible standards and have us aiming for fanciful perfection. Not all of us look like Barbie or Ken, not all of us live in a big mansion or drive an expensive car (although I would like to), and not all of us live in luxury like others who has that opportunity. For these things, don’t define the value of our self-worth. Most of us tried to fit into society 's deception of beauty instead I believe we should spend more time getting to know ourselves.

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For many years, society has been told by the media that there a certain way that people should look. We are shown that true beauty in what we see in the media and advertisements. They celebrities and models in the media are beautiful, symmetric, flawless and perfect in all the right places. There is something that society needs to realize. Society is being fooled. The beauty shown in media is not realistic and it is not obtainable. For our public advocacy project, we want to dispel media’s beauty standards and shine a light on the truth. The truth is that the media creates beauty standards with the use of Photoshop. Photoshop involves altering body features to be more appealing and beautiful. This is done by the use of lighting, angles, computer techniques and props.

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For many years, women have been critical of their images, thinking that others portray them with the same negative view. Perhaps this is worsening with time due to pressure from social media demanding that beauty is seen in perfection. According to an online article, “Social Media: Does Social Media Have a Positive Impact On the World?”, the opposition argues that “People need to look deeper for self-worth, they contend, than achieving "likes" (on Facebook) by posting selfies on social media”. They suggest that “if you’re editing photos down to the finest of details such as changing eyelashes and skin tone, chances are you're giving too much merit to how others perceive you." (Social Media: Does social media have a positive impact on the world?). In the ad “Real Beauty Sketches: You’re More Beautiful Than You Think”, Dove persuades women to fight against the negativity and discover inner beauty, which is crucial to finding happiness. The message is portrayed by touching the hearts of viewers through emotive connection with real people, a tranquil atmosphere, and a calm tone to captivate and gain their consumers trust in the brand.

Models, Celebrities, and all those who have risen to fame through their looks are a large part of America’s entertainment that has leaked into the daily lives of everyone living and participating in today’s society. Within their takeover of people’s lives through all forms of media: television, magazines, newspapers, the internet and social media, there is a large portion that includes all of the promotional photos taken that circulate through the media. In these photos, the celebrities always look flawless, attractive, and perpetuate an unrealistic beauty standard. These photos, which have all been retouched and photoshopped, inhabit and circulate social media reaching the millions of people who frequently use it. These people see the images and view them as an unattainable goal they wish and society tells them to reach. In order to combat the harm that has already been inflicted upon society, social media needs to be used to promote a healthier, wider definition of beauty than the current one according to the western beauty standards of today.