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 think it is weird how they can do that that is why people wish they looked like that but the models dont really look like that.And it might be diffrent with girls and boys because girls are judged harder then boys are and i do think that discrimanation is already started
i do think these unrealistic expectations are different for boys and girls. Girls try to be thin and always look cute for boys. They get insulted and rejected if they are called names like " fat" or "obese". I think it's extremely rude for people to be judging someone else's weight or size. Boys could care less sometimes, but i basically think girls take it more literally.
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i total agree with cmm. I deal with name calling sometimes, and it hurts. Im not saying that i go and throw up in the batroom or take pills or do drugs, but I definetly put my self down some times. And I think it is so much different between boys and girls because girls think that being extremly thin makes you pretty. and it dosent. And some guys really dont care about their apperence [no affence] not saying its a bad thing but guys arent a sensitive as girls.
I think the claims in this article are that people dont have to fell bad about them selfs, because, most of the time people dont look bad or overweight. In the video i think that its weird how they can make them look different from what they look like. No, i do not think that these unrealistics are different from boys and girls.I think beauty discrimination has already started and its not right.
I think a lot of girls and maybe guys even can probabaly relate to this article. If people think that they look ugly or fat or whatever they will even go to extreme measures to correct that. How can anyone know your real beauty if you cover it up with make-up and stuff?
i do think it is different for boys nd girls. Girls take it more seriously though, they try and look pretty and think that being skinner would make them look better.
1. I think that beauty is not only on the outside, but also on the inside, and I dont think that it is right for other people to judge the way other people look and to tell them how they should look.
2. I think that these unrealistic expectations are not diferent for boys and girls.
3.I think that beauty discrimination starts in a persons life once that hit there early teenage years.
I also agree with cmm, because if a boy got insulted and told that he was "fat" they would just ignore it, but when a girl is told that, she takes it extremely personaly because it is hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you see models or people in magazines are are more "enhanced" or has more beauty than you and they feel they are have to be in competition at times.
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