for not only adults but young women and even teenagers to have everything from nose jobs to boob jobs, liposuction to tummy tucks and every other imaginable body part worked on. Of course, the doctors evaluate each patient first to make sure that their goals aren't unrealistic and that they having these procedures done for the right reasons. However, since the doctors are the ones that make the money off of the procedures, perhaps we should take a look at who is making these decisions. Before it even gets to that point, perhaps we should take a look at an industry who puts unrealistic models on the covers of there magazines. Very few, if any of us can measure up to these pictures, it is another case of Beaudrillard, the fake, or perfected real is now more real to us than the real. Of course, who is it that buys the magazines? How will the cycle ever end?
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Cover of Baudrillard
Not only does the "normal" woman not look like this, but odds are that even these women do not look like this. Even if they have not had plastic surgeries of all kinds, they have probably been constructed by producers of the magazine with shadowing, airbrushing and numerous other techniques to look more beautiful than their natural beauty. What are we telling young girls today? This is obviously not a new question, but one that nothing has been done about. Today it has become more and more acceptable
for not only adults but young women and even teenagers to have everything from nose jobs to boob jobs, liposuction to tummy tucks and every other imaginable body part worked on. Of course, the doctors evaluate each patient first to make sure that their goals aren't unrealistic and that they having these procedures done for the right reasons. However, since the doctors are the ones that make the money off of the procedures, perhaps we should take a look at who is making these decisions. Before it even gets to that point, perhaps we should take a look at an industry who puts unrealistic models on the covers of there magazines. Very few, if any of us can measure up to these pictures, it is another case of Beaudrillard, the fake, or perfected real is now more real to us than the real. Of course, who is it that buys the magazines? How will the cycle ever end?
for not only adults but young women and even teenagers to have everything from nose jobs to boob jobs, liposuction to tummy tucks and every other imaginable body part worked on. Of course, the doctors evaluate each patient first to make sure that their goals aren't unrealistic and that they having these procedures done for the right reasons. However, since the doctors are the ones that make the money off of the procedures, perhaps we should take a look at who is making these decisions. Before it even gets to that point, perhaps we should take a look at an industry who puts unrealistic models on the covers of there magazines. Very few, if any of us can measure up to these pictures, it is another case of Beaudrillard, the fake, or perfected real is now more real to us than the real. Of course, who is it that buys the magazines? How will the cycle ever end?
Oh Christmas Tree! Oh Christmas Tree!
We have all heard the complaints about Christmas becoming too commercialized. But have you ever considered that even the Christmas Tree itself has become commodified and the desire for the perfect Christmas tree, (and I would argue the "easy" Christmas tree) is part of the problem? Many would take a look at this picture and think, how nice, a real Christmas tree. I would say, that there is no such thing as a "real" Christmas tree today. The trees you see here are manufactured constructions of a "real" Christmas tree. No longer is the search for the Christmas tree a family event where we go to the woods behind our home, cut it down with an ax and saw, load it on our horse or wagon and take it home together, where we have hot cocoa infront of the fireplace and then sing carols while we decorate the tree. Today, in fact, we are more than ever picking our tree up at Wal-Mart with the lights already on it and very little decorating required.
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