Doe this make you sad or angry? Or do you concider it not to be a problem?

Question

We seem to be chained to the media definition of beauty in both sexes. The truely beautiful people are being pushed a side by a purely physical definition of the word Beautiful. Personality for most doesn't seem to be a factor. How does that make you feel? By the way how old are you. Does a person's age make a difference?

Answer 1

I can care less I try to exercises an eat right to look good an stay healthy. But know I will never be a model an I am fine with that. Age 30

Answer 2

No change to how I feel. I don't look for approval, I'm a good judge of character,  and I know what my principles are.

Age will unfortunately make a difference--if you aren't around 32 like I am, then you're easily just stupid. lol

Answer 3

Honestly it doesn't really bother me. I thought beauty was in the eyes of the beholder anyway? But yeah, I guess it's somewhat sad we allow pop culture and the media to set standards on what beauty looks like.

Answer 4

Humans were shallow before the modern medias existed.

Answer 5

i'm not really much affected as in what to and what not to wear, but the only think i seem to be always having a problem is seeing sometimes how people consider it really "gorgeous" to have a skinny person. i mean, i'm not fat, but i'm not seriously skinny. it kind of gets on my nerves, but considering i'm not a person who gets together with a bunch of people who are overly concerned with the media's thoughts on beauty, i have to say that it's really something else to see people's real personalities.

i'm fourteen, and i've never really bothered for the sorting common society seems to do in everyday life. they're trying avoid letting us have our own personalities.

Answer 6

The way 'beauty' is commercialised is a major problem in our society, and one which has severely warped our perceptions of our natural selves.

One of the biggest problems is the emergence of a kind of 'universal' standard based on youthful physical appearance.

This is especially problematic because of the transient nature of youthful beauty and the multitude of issues associated with this, coupled with the immense power the media has to shape perceptions and attitudes, often without any voluntary participation on the part of those 'receiving' the message.

While it is fair to say that throughout history notions of beauty have always been associated with physical charcateristics, it's also true that those notions were very often localised and dependent on what might be called 'naturally occurring' factors ~ healthy appearance being a primary indicator.

Today, as well as beauty being 'universalised' and 'packaged' for coinsumer purposes, the message of individual responsibility ~ that if you are not beautiful enough it is your own fault ~ is also becoming very powerful.

No wonder so many girls and boys have eating disorders and anxiety issues.

These messages are especially powerful for the young themselves, because hormonally and developmnentally they are more 'wired into' mating display and s3x / desire behaviour patterns than older people.

The diminishing 'fires' of passion do give older people a respoite from the constant drive to 'present' and 'display', and therefore more mental leisure time to think abiout these matters, rather than act on them.

It's also an interesting matter because there are so many young people especially who recognise how they are being manipulated, and who are deliberately subverting the process in their own ways.

I don't know if I feel 'sad' about it as such ~ it is fascinating, but for me any sense of judging or desiring people according to those standards, is long past, so the sense of basing an idea of someone's worth on such superficial matters seems laughable.

Hmmm, maybe age is the factor. But on the other hand, I know so many young people with ideas that make the concepts of my youth seem shallow ... maybe it's a combination of attitudes, ideas and behaviours.

Nevertheless, I do think people of worth, with something real inside, do need to get out of the sphere of people who judge others superficially, if they can, or their true value may lie unnoticed.

Another great question!

Cheers :-)

Answer 7

Haha, I wish I'd seen this Q 1st!  Here...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Btw, I'm 42 at this moment.

Answer 8

I'm 25, and there have been MANY cases where a good-looking person's personality turned me off.  There was a guy I had a huge crush on but after finding out how mean he was..I was instantly repulsed and was even embarrassed to like someone like him.

Looks are important to an extent, but it doesn't stop there.

Answer 9

It used to affect me, but I don’t really buy into anything that any mediums tell me to believe. They aren’t trying to make anyone feel badly about themselves; they will just do anything to sell their product. I haven’t really watched television in a while (except for adult swim, Aussie news and documentaries though.)

It’s all too fake; I really don’t want to be caught up in the superficiality of it all. The people that make the magazines and the ads etc do not care about you as an individual; they are about their sponsors and products getting their money.

I just pay no attention; it’s not going to go away because they make too much profit from it. In all honesty I just ignore it; there is no point in getting yourself upset about something that is inevitable. I am 21 years old.

Answer 10

beauty is in the eye of beholder. Some of the women I find attractive some of my friends don't and the women they find attractive I often find repulsive.

        We each have our own personnel tastes when it comes to physical appearance,intellect, character,morality when it comes to selecting someone to spend time with.

Answer 11

I'm 37, and in some cases age does make a difference if you are talking about employment. I mean most models careers are over before the age of thirty, but if they become popular enough they are moved to the silver screen. There is no doubt that our society prefers the younger and the more beautiful people when they are selecting employees. They want fresh minds and fresh faces, not people that have experience, they would rather mold people into what they want them to be, it is hard to do that with older people because they are more set in their ways, employers don't like that. ;-)

Answer 12

it somewhat bothers me because its true. girls are told today through the media that they have to be practically anorexic and have big b***s with flawless skin in order to be considered beautiful. this truly hurts girls self esteem. i know that i'll never be a size zero with a models looks and i'm happy with myself the way i am. btw i'm 16 years old.