Beauty and the Beast - Assignment Example

Beauty and the Beast We live in a very superficial world. Where women are expected to look a certain way and men are expected to look a certain way as well. However, it is worse for women because our looks are given a sexual connotation and we are taught that we can only attract the men if we try to look like the supermodels that we know we can never be. Supermodels have a team of stylists, ordinary women only have a pair of hands. Men on the other hand, as long as they look fresh, have clean cut hair, and dress properly, can already be called handsome.

Women in this case have gotten the bum end of the stick. The media focuses too much on sexual and gender expectations when it comes to women. That is why women have a more convoluted view of themselves than the men. But the truth is that none of the women are beauties, and none of the men are beasts either. We all look the way that we are supposed to, like human beings. Attraction is a totally different case. Which leads me to wonder as to why we are a society have allowed the media so much power in terms of dictating our body images.

What right to they have to create unrealistic images of women and men? Shouldnt the media be punished for all the image issues that generations of women have had to live with?