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Film Analysis: Real Women Have Curves
For a long time women and men have had self image issues due to what society depicts is beautiful. If you don’t look like a certain kind of model or a certain actor/ actress then you are considered ugly. This has been going on for the longest time. Women are judged by the size of their waist, butt, thighs and how pretty their face looks. Men are judged as well. They are judged on how muscular or tall they are or if they are capable of being a Hollister model. People shouldn’t be judged on how they look.

“Since 1600 BC, society has told women how they should look.” For ages leading all the way to 1600 BC women and men lose to the powerful and genetically blessed. In the movie Real Women Have Curves starring America Ferrera, the main character starts to love and accept herself against the comments her mother makes toward her. No matter how hard her own mother and others made her feel about herself, she rose up above it and learned to love herself.
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We have so many beautiful women that we look up to and admire but we also envy them. Boys and men want to have them but girls and women want to be them and look like the. I can’t say that women or men have it harder than the other gender because it’s not true. Women envy stars because their body looks a certain way, their hair is always perfect, and their faces are absolutely flawless. Men watch their sports and hear their girls fawn over what player is attractive to her or even fawn over a certain singer or boy band member. Men wonder what is so special about these people besides the fact that they can sing, dance or play a sport.They envy these stars because these are the men their girls think about and obsess over. There are so many factors that go into shaping society and having it become what it is

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