I came upon an interesting personal essay my English teacher assigned us for homework today. I don't care much for the homework assignment itself but instead the realization that dawned on me as I read it. It was about self image and how style, peer pressure, and so on effects the modern day teenager. The one sentence in the essay was what really got me thinking, it said something along the lines of "Has the female gender really been liberated ". Then I thought to myself, perhaps that's true. The Media often exploits the perfect image for a women. Thin, beautiful, skimpy clothing... Gender exploitation has taken on a new face that goes often unseen by many but subconsciously gnaws on those it's advertising for.
Maybe it's why I consider myself slightly or more-so obese. Because the "perfect woman" image is almost impossible to achieve due to the excessive amount of Photoshop involved. Could it be advertiser are trying to appeal towards the male gender by exploiting women into desirable harlots? I have a suspicion it is so. Those (like my self) who are the slightest bit chubby are frowned on as fat or lazy, when only fifty years ago the slightly chubby was looked for in women! And let us not forget about anorexic girls... Why are they doing this to themselves? The answer lies above.
If you ever meet me in real life, and see that I'm not as over weight as I'm making myself out to be that isn't the point. The point is I believe that I am. Even though I've come to realize this I cannot think otherwise.
Yours truly,
a clinically depressed author
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