Feb 29, 2004
It’s been said before, but I’ll say it again.
I was at CVS this morning, and the two girls in front of me in line, who couldn’t have been more than eleven or twelve, were buying mud masks. What is it about our society that tells little girls to buy mud masks? The same thing that tells women to get Botox injections and that guy on TV to get butt implants. It’s disgusting.
I’m afraid that by the time I’m middle aged, plastic surgery and the like will be standard for aging women. Oops, there’s a wrinkle, time to sign up for your first face lift!
Yes, it’s the media, blah blah unrealistic body types blah blah blah. I just wish people were smarter than that. Why can’t we look at all the “beautiful” people and dismiss them as slightly sick anomalies? Why are 75% of teenage girls unwilling to reveal their weight? Why can’t people be intelligent enough to look around and see that they don’t have to be blonde with a BMI of 18 to be happy and loved?
Sara at 5:15 PM on 2/29/04
I totally and completely agree, though I admit I try to change things about me and worry constantly about “looking good” but I do agree with the whole imposing of the media that directs itself to young girls so that these girls will buy diet pills and stop eating in order to lose so much weight in order to be “beautiful” when in the end what they get is an unhealthy body and a self conscious attitude as well as probably removal to the hospital or a counselor…scary much. Damn media :: shakes fist rapidly ::