Dec. 15th, 2007

Beauty... the indoctrination

Dec. 15th, 2007 01:15 pm
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In my Women and Gender studies I'm taking a class called "Disordered Eating", where we've been talking about the way society's beauty standards as they are presented to us in the mainstream and mass media are so distorted they are part of a social pathology which can trigger eating disorders in young girls and women.
To this I said "Well, duh!".
But I sometimes forget that not everyone takes the time to try and remove the social indoctrination we're born and fed into, not everyone takes the time to read "The Beauty Myth" by Naomi Woolf (I highly rec this, BTW) and really, not everyone, not even the most intelligent people (mainly my woman ones) in my acquaintance fall into that big ditch that is known as the Standard.

Here are two videos that showcase how distorted our pop-cultural ideal of beauty is;

This one I think went viral about a year ago, everybody saw it, but it didn't really change anything, because ads and photos are still being Photoshopped and "Touched up".
( Dove Body Image Advertising )
I think the second one really speaks for itself, it is especially evocative, to me at least and it is called ( Doll Face )
  • feeling didactic
  • hearing John Lennon - Woman is the Nigger of the World
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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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