Our+Vision+of+American+Beauty

= = =//** A "woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion" -Blanche DuBois **//= = =

//** Have we gone too far in manufacturing beauty? What is beauty in America? **//
Have we passed the 50% Mark?

// Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is -- // // Chase it, and it ceases -- // // Chase it not, and it abides -- //

// Overtake the Creases //

// In the Meadow -- when the Wind // // Runs his fingers thro' it -- // // Deity will see to it // // That You never do it -- //

** ~Emily Dickinson **
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Beauty and Body Image in the Media **Self-Improvement or Self-Destruction?** "The barrage of messages about thinness, dieting and beauty tells 'ordinary' women that they are always in need of adjustment—and that the female body is an object to be perfected.Jean Kilbourne argues that the overwhelming presence of media images of painfully thin women means that real women’s bodies have become invisible in the mass media. The real tragedy, Kilbourne concludes, is that many women internalize these stereotypes, and judge themselves by the beauty industry's standards. Women learn to compare themselves to other women, and to compete with them for male attention. This focus on beauty and desirability 'effectively destroys any awareness and action that might help to change that climate.'"   http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm

"No matter what life you lead the virgin is a lovely number: // cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper, // // arms and legs made of Limoges, // // lips like Vin Du Rhône, // // rolling her china-blue doll eyes // of the unicorn.  She is unsoiled. // She is as white as a bonefish." // --First Stanza of Anne Sexton's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves"
 * open and shut. **
 * Open to say, **
 * Good Day Mama, **
 * and shut for the thrust **

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