American+Beauty+can+we+keep+up+reflection

 ==This wall relates to the previous wall because this wall talks about medias infulence on women, just like the American dream is based on the media. The consumer culture has taken over the American dream just like advertisments and television are shaping the way women think each day.==


== The role of women has changed dramatically over the years, but it is along the same basis of inferiority. Years ago it was extremly hard for Americans to break the housewive sterotype. Women were told that they had to support the family and take care of the house. Women were never supose to break. They were not allowed to get upset and they were never supose to show fear. Women's role in society was to be the comforter and to live the perfect life. It was hard for women to break the social barriers because they were faced with discrimination in the workplace. If women did get jobs they were only as secretaries, cashiers, bookkeepers, nurses, and waitresses. Even if a woman could move up to a new position, they were still getting paid less than men. Women wanted to get involved in the workplace, but they weren't treated as equals. Women have come a long way sicne the early 1900's and now it is eaiser for women to work side by side with men. While educated women find it now eaiser to find work in the competitive industrial world. Women are now concerned with their beauty. Each day women see adds, billboards, commericals, and television shows. Women are faced with pressures to be beautiful, sexy, and they want to be every man's fantacy. Women feel that they have to keep up with the newest styles in order to feel good about themselves and in order to be accepted in American society. Women have conformed. Millions of women are diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and bulima just to confrom to what they see in the media. I have a veido clip of a model that is see often on billboards. You see this woman as she is normally. She is your average looking woman that you would see on the streets, nothing speical. However, they completly change everything about this woman's face. They plaster on makeup, change her hair, and enhance all her features in photoshop. This woman is not a natural knock-out. She spent hours behind the sences to look perfect. America should not change their naturalness, because the beauty that we see in the media is fake. Another challenge that women are faced with is looking sexy for a spouce. Today, it is common for men to say that their ideal woman is a dumb blonde. Men think dumb blondes are attractive because they would have the power of the relationship and at teh same time they would have a good looking girl at their sholder. Women are willing to sacrifice their brains for beauty. There are two video clips of the "dumb blonde". These two clips were exposed through the media, and it shows the unintelligence of the women race. However, not all women are like that. But clips like that contribute to the streotype of the women in this culture. It shows that all women are stupid and unintelligent. However, today there is inspiration in our nation to be better and to strive for more. With presidental nominee, Hiliary Clinton, she express a hope and and importance for women in our culture. I believe that she is motivating women all over the nation to care about the country we live in and to be well educated. "There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. " Having a woman presdient would exemplify the long and hard journey that women have endured for hundreds of years. Its importnat that women have positive influences in popular culture like Hiliary Clinton, and not the dumb blondes that we constantly see on television. This wall connects to the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Claudia explores had feels the passion about what it is like to be truly ugly in American society. She envies Maureen Peal because Maureen had blue eyes. Claudia felt that in order to be beautiful and accpeted in American society she felt that she had to have blue eyes. The white people are the people that had blue eyes, and they are the ones respected in society. Therefore, Claudia feels that in order to be accepted she needs to have blue eyes. She justifies he ill treatment by her blue eyes. For Claudia, the transformation from brown eyes to blue eyes was impossible. However, transformation in today's society is possible. Today, Americans have the technology and materials to make any one person beautiful. Although people may feel more comforable about themsevles by hiding behind beauty products, it is what leads to the destruction of our American culture. ==

Minority Injustice