... millions of of women worldwide paint themselves, starve themselves, even have medical operations to live up to social standards of beauty. Who sets these standards? We do─we, the fashion and image industries, with our magazine covers, miracle diets, and synthetically engineered celebrities. Why is this in our best interest? First, insecurity sells. The more unreachable the standards we set for you, the worse youll feel about yourselves, and the more of our products youll think you need. Second, its important that we keep you thinking of yourself as a body, first and foremost. All our image of women as bodies, from classical art to twentieth century perfume advertisements, conspire to make you think this way. If you conceive of yourself as a body, and you measure your own value as such, then youll believe it is our body accessories you need most of all to be happy... not an exciting life, creative projects, a safe and beautiful world, etc. For the sake of these absurd beauty standards, were willing to kill dozens of women with anorexia each year, to make thousands and thousands more sick with bulimia and malnutrition, to make women pay thousands of dollars for plastic surgery and dangerous breast implants, to make non-white women pay for products that will supposedly make them look more like the white beauty queens, to make millions of women and girls across the world miserably insecure about their bodies and themselves. And mens desires are shaped by our conditioning, too, so that they end up pursuing a glamorous image of woman that doesnt exist in reality, while missing the real beauty right next to them on the streets and in their homes. Why do we have all this power? Because in this competitive free market, our mercilessness in the name of profits has been rewarded by higher sales than our more humane competitors. Our way works in the capitalist economy, our way sells more, it dominates and coquers in a system where money has more value than human happiness.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 06:40:30 +0000
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