A damaging culture

This week we watched a really interesting video in sociology. It focused on how the media effects us negatively. The main speaker showed her audience various examples of media images that severely damage female self esteem. She explained to us that the media brainwashes us into believing that the only way to be beautiful is to be light skinned, skinny, and much more. A lot of the aspects are just plain unattainable. For example, I'm black, so I know there is no way I will look like the light skinned girls in all of these high fashion magazines. I'm also not annorexic like these models, so I don't look rail thin like them. But, the speaker explained to us that even trying to look this way is ridiculous. We all look different and I definitely think it's better that way. I hope the media eventually finds a way to stop obectifying women and focusing on this image of beauty that isn't even realistic. Maybe then we will see a decrease disorders related to self esteem and an increase in female confidence.