Summary: The Economic Benefits Of Being Beautiful

“You’re damned if you’re too thin and you’re damned if you’re too heavy. According to the press, I’ve been both. It’s impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying”.( Jennifer Aniston). In today’s society the ideal image of beauty has continually focused on women's body; thinness, tiny waist, flawless skin, hourglass figure, long hair, and a perfect smile. Due to these beauty standards, I witness many young women take ‘the easy road’, feeling that they are ugly, and overall fall into developing an eating disorder. During the teenage years, we as women, tend to chose between loving our body the way it is or harming ourselves by dieting, plastic surgery in order to have the ideal body image. Unfortunately, some women decide to harm
Most of these viewers are young women who are pretty self-conscious about themselves. In Joss Fong and Joe Posner’s youtube video , “ The Economic Benefits of Being Beautiful”, the directors describe that being beautiful will give you a better life. According to Fong and Posner, they describe that being beautiful will give you the chance of getting hired at a job, earning more than an average person, and a better shot of getting promoted, and being loved by others. If a woman has those ideal beauty standards that even men with flaws will love a beautiful women, but if a woman does not have those standards, she will not be beautiful or be loved. Fongs and Posner shows the viewers that it is better to be loved than hated, yet in order to be loved, a person has to be beautiful and young instead of being an average looking women that is hated by the
In the media, the most beautiful are thin, have a hourglass figure, long hair, flawless skin. Then the whole world will love and adore you. Due to the media, I witnessed many women shopping at expensive clothing stores to feel beautiful, just because they show a beautiful model promoting the product on television. Women spend tons of money on any products, yet somehow they still feel ungrateful about their physical appearance. In Shari Graydon’s article “ The Pursuit of Beauty is Harmful”, the author describe that women who are exposed to these ideal beauty standards are more likely to have a low self esteem. According to Graydon, she states that “ Dozen of peer-reviewed academic studies now document the degree of disatisfaction women and girls experience with themselves after exposure to unrealistically thin and beautiful female models and actors”. Indeed, I believe that the more we see these advertisements, the more likely that a woman will feel ugly and fat about herself, when in reality she is beautiful the way she is. Women are beautiful by showing how their personality and they work with others and how they are by themselves. Looks doesn't matter, but what really matter is what is