Pro-Con essay

Pro/Con – essay
“The struggle for beauty”

We live in a world that strives for perfection. For hundreds of years, beauty was very important for the human being- especially for women. In this text I will show you my attitudes and the advantages and disadvantages of this hard contested “Struggle for Beauty”.

To start with, I want to tell you some good aspects for striving for perfection. There is this nice feeling of happiness if you are able to see your perfect image in the mirror after put your face on for example. Therefore I would say that it is the success, which makes us happy. It involves self confidence and the feeling of being accepted. But we have to ask ourselves if it is really right to distinguish the well- dressed people from the others who are not able to buy expensive designer clothes. There are also ugly people wearing expensive clothes, whereas there are also beauties of natures, which are not wearing Ed Hardy. So are they not called beautiful now, because they didn’t buy the latest fad of New York?! The same with the surgery’s. There are two different types of surgeries. Plastic surgery, which is only for those that their body conforms to the current ideal of beauty, or the restorative surgery for people with burnt skin for example. On the one hand a woman with breasts Cup C is not getting discriminated usually. An accident victim on the other hand, is ogled by everyone. Such people could be helped with a surgery, because it will help them physically.

There are also some important disadvantages to this struggle. Think at the scars from botched plastic surgeries, or other body distortions. From this follows, that those victims are getting more psychological problems, than they had before.
It is obvious, that there are also negative aspects about the world, where everything can be modified for the sake of perfection. At this point, I will take the example with perfect looking cover girls on the magazines. They became idols for most of us. So we start with unhealthy diets and never get happy, because we are not getting as thin as those anorexic models. I strongly believe that we forgot that having a charismatic personality and a healthy dose of self – esteem is also a part of beauty!

To sum up, I would say that each is a mixed bag of positive and negative aspects. But all in all we should decide what is good for us and what only makes us only sick. Trends are changing-> our personality and friendships stay.

Beauty

Social pressure and beauty for teens

Pro:

• Fashion labels concerns get rich (good for business)
• Everybody is looking for themselves (hygiene, fashion…)
• Boots self- confidence
• Beauty is success in our society, so why shouldn’t people make them beauty?
• Because of the high demand, there is more work for people
• We live in a free country, so everyone should be allowed to do with his/her body whatever he/she likes

Con:

• Social pressure because it’s not their own wish
• It’s a big risk to undergo surgery
• Addiction
• Teens haven’t finish their growth, so their body still changes
• You don’t get addicted, if you don’t look good
• A lot of teens buy more clothes than they have money
• Maybe they change their opinion, when they’re older, so it’s not good to change your body in this age
• Teenagers get influenced by advertisements

Additional thoughts:

• Personality is changing
• Will there always be the same beauty ideal?
• Will the surgery age go down?
• Will beauty be the most important thing in life?
• Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder?
• If you want to do that you do it, no matter if your mother also had a plastic surgery or not.
• Teenagers exaggerate with the beauty ideals

How women are presented in advertise

. From:
. Sarah Klinger
. 1250 East Arques Avenue
. Sunnyvale, CA
. USA
. 94085

.

4th December 2008

To:
L3 Advertising
115 Bowery 3/F
New York, NY 10002
USA
94085



Dear L3 Advertising!

Complaint letter

I want to complain how women are presented in your advertise.
The way I see it, today every woman has got the freedom of speech and the chance to go working instead doing the chores, it is an unbounded cheek to put the women back in front of the cooker in your advertises!

When I was watching television, suddenly the film got disturbed by some advertising spots. It was really conspicuous, how many household articles were shown there and there always were women only, presenting these products. In my opinion, you should not forget the fact, that all has been changing, hasn’t it? Above all the typical roles of men and women have changed. Today also the woman is earning money and the man is looking after the kids. I dare to say, that housemen could be as good as women, but their self confidence is not getting higher, if they have to see this perfect women in the advertising every day. He maybe feels unaccepted, because according to the television, only women are the experts in the household.

In the end I can say, that I am very glad about the changing from past to now. I am also sure, that it would be better to support house men, instead discriminate women and try to bring them back to their old roles!


Fatihfully yours
Sarah K.