Oh, where art thou oh “Pretty”?

The blog, “Death of Pretty” by Pat Archbold brings to light the loss of innocence in many young women today. The line “Young women today do not seem to aspire to pretty, they prefer to be regarded as hot” summed up the blog nicely, in essence the author’s thesis statement. The media has played a major roll in molding and defining how society is to view women and in turn how women view themselves. The author is right, what the media has done and what society has conjured up is a “consumable” self-worth in the minds of young women. Over 150 years ago, women started fighting for their right to stand as an individual. To vote as they want to, to buy and sell as they want to, to own as they want to, and to love as they want to, but in today’s society young women want to be “hot”, to be an object of sexual desire. As the author puts it “… a consumable” item whose “…value is temporary and must be consumed.” We, as a society, both men and women need to stand up and demand to be valued for who we are not for what we have/or don't have to offer physically.

Here we go again, the media and society creating a “new” trend in what we should like. In the blog, “Dadbod: A New Word for a Timeless Physique” the author talks about how more and more women are wanting men with less of a rock hard body. Why define what everyone else likes? So, that you can “follow” the crowd instead of being and individual. Come on people, where is you’re self-worth. This post can be summed up with just one line, “… a catchy name for your physique doesn’t mean you’re special…” Just because “everyone” else likes this kind of body does not mean you have to as well. Like what you want to like, if it’s the same, great, if it’s not the same, great too. Just be YOU.