During class on Friday I related a
lot of Kylies mediated artifact. There are so many influences on us to be
pretty and skinny and perfect. There are so many manipulative things around us
telling us to look a certain way, when we have no control over that. Recently
in Bio we have been talking about the microbiome in our stomach. If you were
born with a certain microbiome, you’re going to absorb more nutrients from you
food than others, and therefore be fatter. Our bodies naturally want to look a
certain way and we have no control over it. But people will starve themselves
to look like how society wants them to.
The thing that hits home the most for
me when it comes to trying to be beautiful is hair. Interesting fact, curly
hair is the dominant gene. You’d have no idea when you looked at girls today. I
guess it’s just the way style trends go but someone out there said that right
now, straight hair is in. So any girl who doesn’t have pin straight perfect
hair, straightens it. Girls have been so manipulated to think that they’re not
pretty and they have to change their hair to look prettier. It’s crazy how many
people have said to me, you look better with straight hair. It’s the most back
handed compliment I’ve ever received. It all comes back to what Kylie was
saying, there is a definition of pretty and we’re supposed to change ourselves to
fit that profile. Unless magazines, TV, movies, and almost everything around us
drastically change, this is going to continue to be a problem for a long time.
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