Samstag, 6. Dezember 2008

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

Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008

Letter of complaint

Raphaela
Wegeler 5
A-6840 Götzis
Dezember 4nd, 2008
BBC Complaints
PO Box 1922
Glasgow
G2 3WT


Dear Madam/Sir


Letter of complaint


I want to complaint about how women are presented in advertising. Something must be done about this! It can’t be that women are pressed into a cliché that had existed in the past. Watching not much TV I have a feeling that women are sex symbols and the only thing for what they are competent is housework. They have to present the product very attractive and that demands from them to be beautiful, sexy and silly, because an intelligent and competitive woman is a high challenge. Now the image of beautiful women should change and not being presented like a beautiful object. For instance in a washing powder advertising, where always a woman says how good it is and how clean the clothes will be. As a matter of fact nearby all advertisings with household appliances show a woman.

In summing up it can be said that I would be glad if you start to change the image of women. We should be ahead of our time.

Yours,
Raphaela