Kilbourne's Ideal Female Beauty?

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That really comes down to it, “ideal female beauty” or the Barbie model is hard to find. When Barbie gains a few pounds or is nowhere to be found on Earth, what does the Media do? If the Media cannot get an “ideal female beauty”, just make one like Kilbourne said in Killing us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women. Splice together a few different people to make a fake person. Like a game young males would have played, “If you can combine four famous girls, who would she have what, from who.” The problem that Kilbourne feels, this is lowing female esteem more. Showing a female viewer their famous actress thinner, when reality they are not can really bring a person down. Even worst the media is creating a person with different people’s body parts, like a Frankenstein’s monster, proving that women should alter their appearance to look even better. Even today, girls are using Photoshop to make themselves better looking, like a novice computer editor changing her cheek bone, her belly, and even enlarging her breast size, just to make a guy talk to them on…show more content…
The term “thick is beautiful” is being thrown more and more around this day. Famous people like, Nicki Minaj, Mila Kunis to name a few, are showing us the thick curves. Mila Kunis is even a nerd, who plays video games like World of Warcraft to be exact, which is reserved for geeks who are overweight and ugly. Even Nicki Minja stated in her song Anaconda,”He can tell I ain't missing no meals” embracing her thickness. Prove that some guys do not want a skinny girl. Even the 14 billion a year porn industry, starting to realize men are starting to like females thick. New porn star like Mia Khalifa and Sasha Grey are receiving awards and are thick, which were reserved for petite girls. Strengthening Fowles point, it’s ours needs and wants; the Media is only providing one’s
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