My Stereotypes: Selena Gomez

As an eighteen year old female, if you ask me if I could would I change anything about myself I will nine times out of ten respond to you by saying “Yes, I would change everything about myself” and I honestly believe that even if I looked like Selena Gomez (www.wonderslists.com most beautiful woman 2016) I would still want to change things about myself for the simple fact that the Selena Gomez we see in magazines does not look like that in real life. No one is that perfect they just look so perfect because of the air brushing and retouching and photo shopping that photo editors do before the public see any of these photos. I am willing to bet that I would look just as beautiful as Selena Gomez if all of my photos were airbrushed to perfection
I am not saying that this is an excuse for rapists I’m just stating that maybe there wouldn’t be so many rapists if we weren’t surrounded by rape culture. These images illustrate course concept of representations. In week seven we discussed the ideal body, and body images, a lot of the images I chose for my collage relate back to that because as I stated before the women in these ads all have “the perfect body” they are photoshopped and retouched so much that the women in these images probably most likely don’t even exist I mean they’re obviously real people but they most likely don’t look like that. These images reinforce the status quo in that women are still objectified and sexualized in media. The fact that it is two thousand sixteen and rape culture is still perpetuated in media is horrifying not to mention the double standards of women’s bodies it’s okay to use a woman’s breasts to sell perfume whisky but god forbid you breastfeed in