Media vs. Beauty

Free Reflection

How do the media affect the concept of beauty?

Media is a huge part of our lives.Especially with the growing importance given to the social media, it has became impossible to escape from the boundaries that the media has put.

But how do the media do this? Why do we accept the standarts that the media decides? Why do we see 'the normal' as figures that we see on TV or magazines?

Well, everyone wants to be accepted among other people and when they cannot satisfy the standards that were given they feel inadequate. So they try to look like those perfect beauty idols. Particularly teenagers or younger kids are likely to be affected by these certain images as their personaities or thoughts have not taken form yet. So media has an important role on kids to build up their personalities and ideas.

As a result of these effects,media shapes our acceptance of beauty by controlling and suppressing minds.