Body Image Blog Titled: Unattainable Beauty

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Unattainable Beauty:
Body Image - It's a chicken-or-the-egg scenario: What comes first, our notion of what's amazing or beauty itself driving our thoughts? Does beauty even exist as a unique entity or is it purely in the eye of the beholder? What happens when we're told what to behold as delightful?
Unattainable Beauty
We all whine about how today's pictures of perfect beauty are vastly different from truth, different enough for some people to starve themselves to death or go under the knife for life changing (possibly life finishing) surgery. What convinces these people to embrace this kind of singular notion of beauty which they feel like they have no option but to commit to a life of pursuing conformity? These ideals cannot simply pop out of thin air, and there are not any aliens in a parallel universe planting pictures of supermodels into our advertisements so numerous girls can eat lettuce the rest in their lives. So where does it all come from?
Portrait of topless young woman wearing corset
Our only visual records of the aesthetic of the past are what artists deemed crucial to put down on paper. If I had a nickel for every time I had a conversation with someone about how different the perfect body type was back then compared to now, I'dn't have to go to work tomorrow. The perfect woman had an accentuated waist, round hips, large breasts, and a symmetrical face with moist lips. The girls all looked ready for action with sensuous plump bodies and the guys prepared to ravage or fight a lion, whichever came first. Back then it was mostly reproduction that drove our aesthetic, or quite simply put Sex.
But what occurred to those bends, those soft fleshy women of yesteryear's best masterpieces? The reality was that many women died prematurely due to the controlling, body changing corsets they'd to wear. Those paintings we see now in museums were created more for the whims of their (usually male) patrons and consequently defined their sexual tastes more than anything.

Afterward came http://www.advicealley.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=voy-zone.com of media and the over-saturation of advertising in our media outlets. Today's aesthetic isn't actually an aesthetic at all, but it's a product of the privatization of attractiveness. Any firm who makes a beautifying merchandise will try to sell it as something we cannot live without (makeup, fashion, plastic surgery). Thus they perpetuate the images of attractiveness they understand aren't attainable so we may hopefully be fooled into believing they're by using their products.
Lacing a Dandy
I will safely say that those of us who have now been ignoring society's pleas to buy into a odd notion of attractiveness may keep doing so at no detriment to themselves. For http://www.falsestart.biz/tc/i.cgi?cat=15&mode=redirect&ref_eid=8700&url=http://shockintown.com who do fall into the snare, I expect they see sooner than later that instead of adoring themselves like they should, they are only spending their time here on earth following trends that change in accordance with whatever businesses are trying to put them up for sale.
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