Ziay!

KrissyH

In society today i'm sure you all have noticed that beauty is light skin,light eyes,lengthy straight hair, thin bodies,big breast,and thin noses. I have witnessed beauty in all shapes sizes and colors but why does the world find Angelina Jolie to be a sex symbol and not Monique of the Parkers? I find both women equally beautiful!!!!!!!!

Zyada

Because people in the media have no imagination, and people outside the media decide that what is shown in the media must be the "IDEAL VIEW OF BEAUTY".

But it's BS. What you see in on TV is the lowest common denominator, not the ideal. Make-up? They are designed to appeal to women's concept of what they want to look at when they look in the mirror. Models? My Mom told me that she wouldn't buy something that made the model look fat. Models are chosen to make clothes look good so that clothes sell, not on any ideal of beauty.

Even suggesting that there is a beauty "ideal" is limiting. That says that there is only one way to be beautiful. And you and I know that isn't true at all.

sailing_orienteer

I think it has partly to do with the images in TV, movies and magazines over the course of the 20th century in the U.S. I do think there is beginning to be more recognition of non-stereotypical beauty on TV, etc. now though.