This article by Susan Bordo really seemed to get a good grasp on self image. Everyone is insecure about some feature they posses, there’s no doubt about it. Bordo went to the source; she looked beyond just our personalities to what influences our personalities. Why do we have to look just like a supermodel? Bordo did a fantastic job showing how marketing, advertisements, and social icons affect the way that we view ourselves. She’s right, too. Now that you look at it, society applauds people that have good looks. Vogue never puts a middle class, 35 year old single mother on their covers; it’s always someone that is really young, or someone that has pulled off the miracle, looking young while being old. While people that maintain good looks get all the attention, the majority of people are just left to watch them stroll by, and that’s what drives people to do whatever necessary in order to become that person. Girls change diets, change attitudes, clothes, friends, all just to be looked at as attractive. It’s a very sad state that we live in. People should be looked upon as attractive for their actions, not their looks. Girls who are honest and loyal to the ideas and people they love are the beauties of this nation, not the girls who walk all over everyone in their 3 inch heels.
