Author: Dorothy Lafrinere
Source: articleage.com
Lately I have been studying the media, reading articles,
watching
news, and looking for anything that I can find to make me feel
that
there is still hope for our world. If you have read any of my
past
articles, then you will already know where my concerns lie.
For those of you that are just reading me for the first time,
my
concerns are strong regarding women of today and their search
for the
true identity of themselves.
Women today have fierce competition. I have spoken to many men
also, football face mask
,
and they have strongly let me know that they would not trade
their
gender for any amount, football face mask
, of money. They actually feel sorry for the
women
of today. A few of them even shared with me that, football face mask
, they hate the
fact
that everywhere they look, the media's idea of, "The Perfect
Women" is
stuck in their faces. Sure its nice to see, any human being will
appreciate a nice looking picture. What happens at that very
minute
though is that they (the men) are put in a situation of feeling
that
they are betraying their partner by not knowing exactly how to
react.
I know, I know, some of you are thinking that it is the women's
fault
that the men think that way. I will agree in some cases, but
these men
that I have spoken to were being quite genuine in the fact that
they
themselves did not appreciate it.
I will be the first one to say yes to prostitution. Why?
Because it
keeps the damn rapists of the streets from attacking the
unwilling
women. I say yes to pornography; it keeps the men that are
afraid to
approach real women relieved of a very needed natural release., football face mask
, I
also
say yes to alcohol and to chocolate with ice cream, but my dear
readers, before you frown on me for what I just said, hear me
say
this. "I do not condone the force and uncontrolled manor with
which
the media shoves all this down our throats. I thought this was a
free
country. When did we lose the right to choose whether we want to
have
the media's idea of, "The Perfect Woman", shoved down our
throats
every time we turn on the television, walk into a bar, just
drive down
the road (billboards), open a magazine, listen to a song, or
even
simply look in our teenagers room."
I was reading an article that was advertising the new
television line
ups for this falls season. I was horrified when I read about the
graphic violence being used against women. Episodes showing a
woman
thrashing, football face mask
, in a cage, with duct tape across her eyes, while a
man's
hands are shown grabbing her bloodied fingers through the bars
of the
cage and ripping off her fingernails. Another is chained up like
a dog
in a basement by her so called loving husband. It gets worse;
there is
also one with a woman paralyzed by venomous spider bites and, football face mask
, is
being
raped by a masked figure. These are what society is allowing for
after
dinner viewing. I am embarrassed to even say that this is my
world
seeing this. They made more noise when Janet Jackson slipped a
peak of
her nipple at a damn football game. In a word...SAD!! The media
has
definitely figured out how to make money at every woman's
expense.
On a much happier note,, football face mask
, in my searching the worlds media I did
find a
very refreshing commercial put out by DOVE. It can be viewed at
their
website: www.campaignforrealbeauty.com . "Cheers Dove" is all I
can say. Dove is pushing hard and continuing an uphill climb to
bring back what was put on this earth as, The Real Women.
I also ran into an article trying to cut this refreshing change
down.
The magazine people that pride themselves on using air-brushed
models
with unrealistic looks, called the Dove girls in this
commercial,
"civilians". Ha! Now that is a very obvious show of defeat.
They're
even trying to say that women of today, football face mask
, will not want to buy from
ads
that do not promise you unrealistic beauty. Ladies, the media is
in
fact calling you stupid as far as I read. I take that as an out
right
insult.
It's about time that someone stood up and gave the media's
negative
actions a run for their money. Money made at real women's
expense,, football face mask
, as
I said already once. They also, football face mask
, mention something as silly as
women
worry if they looked fat in their pants, as being an old age
insecurity. DUH! No one ever said it was new, jeesh, football face mask
, . I am also
curious
just how far women today are willing to let the media's idea of
"The
Perfect Woman" go. We are already the butt-end of the cosmetic
surgery
joke. I feel that the only reason any woman would be turned off
by
Dove's real women, is because they have been so brain washed
into
thinking that the media's idea of "The Perfect Women" is what is
real. I feel sorry for them. Ladies of today, we must stand up
and
fight back. Do not let them turn, what is suppose to be real,
into
barbie dolls.
So many women are confused about what is, and what is not. Why
do you
think so many women suffer from low self-esteem, with cosmetic
surgery
at every street corner and so many unrealistic expectations
coming to, football face mask
,
us from the media on how a women is suppose to look? Blah, blah.
It's
no wonder women are so confused.
Well I know that there is strength in numbers and I do know
that
there are more women today that are sick of all of the media's
ideas.
Ladies with low-self esteem, stand up, go to the store, and
support
DOVE. So what? They make money and yes, maybe there is a bit of
truth
that they too are using us as a way to profit. But at least we
have a
place to start to turn things around. We will never be able to
turn
them back, but we can make them work for us, not against us. Oh
if
anyone thinks that Dove has asked me, or payed me to speak, football face mask
, of
them in
my blog, NO and NO. I am speaking on behalf of every women out
there
has been damaged by all the garbage that the media is trying to
run
our world with. Womens Selfesteem.com is happy to say that Dove
is
doing a very good thing, on the "real women" of today's behalf.
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"Don't back down just to keep the peace,
Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and
self-esteem."
-Oprah Winfrey
