The Reality of It All...
"Body image is not simply a mirror-like reflection of external reality. Although the body concept includes objective physical attributes, its contents and associated positive or negative interpretations are highly subjective and influenced by one's environment (Pillips; de Man, 2010)."
Hypothetically speaking, outside beauty and the way the outside world perceives its people especially women tends to determine how comfortable a woman will feel about herself;not to mention, how successful she may be in the working world, the marriage pool, the realm of the media, and the relationship that lye's between her, the law and important governmental officials."One tends to internalize into one's bodily self-concept the reactions and expectations of others which are communicated through interpersonal feedback, through the media, or through cultural attitudes (Phillips; de Man, 2010)." What is beautiful is good and is more likely to receive the better half of everything that she may encounter. Attractiveness is not a defying characteristic that all women innately inherit;therefore, when a woman is categorized as attractive she is looked at as a prize, and judged from the outside in rather the inside out, her character is the least concern because her beauty will speak for her." Ultimately, too many women now believe that the only thing that makes them beautiful is their outer body, and we have lost sight of a woman's real beauty, her inner beauty." However, we must all keep in mind that beauty is in the eye of the beholde,r and what may appear as attractive to one may not appear that way to another and classifications may range from weight, to height, to racial content, eye color, hair texture, etc. So the questions that are left unanswered are What is it that makes a woman more beautiful than another? and why is it that beautiful women have more advantages than women who are less attractive? Does beauty make a woman a great woman?
Hypothetically speaking, outside beauty and the way the outside world perceives its people especially women tends to determine how comfortable a woman will feel about herself;not to mention, how successful she may be in the working world, the marriage pool, the realm of the media, and the relationship that lye's between her, the law and important governmental officials."One tends to internalize into one's bodily self-concept the reactions and expectations of others which are communicated through interpersonal feedback, through the media, or through cultural attitudes (Phillips; de Man, 2010)." What is beautiful is good and is more likely to receive the better half of everything that she may encounter. Attractiveness is not a defying characteristic that all women innately inherit;therefore, when a woman is categorized as attractive she is looked at as a prize, and judged from the outside in rather the inside out, her character is the least concern because her beauty will speak for her." Ultimately, too many women now believe that the only thing that makes them beautiful is their outer body, and we have lost sight of a woman's real beauty, her inner beauty." However, we must all keep in mind that beauty is in the eye of the beholde,r and what may appear as attractive to one may not appear that way to another and classifications may range from weight, to height, to racial content, eye color, hair texture, etc. So the questions that are left unanswered are What is it that makes a woman more beautiful than another? and why is it that beautiful women have more advantages than women who are less attractive? Does beauty make a woman a great woman?