why are women supposed to be thin? why are 6 year olds dressed like Britney Spears?

Why are we, women, the way we are?

In the Introduction to Susan Bordo’s article, “The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies,” she states that women are constantly changing their bodies to fit in with society. She quotes a New York Times reporter stating that “It’s now rare in certain social circles to see a woman over the age of 35 with the ability to look angry,” (152) because of botox injections. Women are becoming more susceptible to thinking that they are not pretty anymore, or they are not what men want. For example, the research done in Fiji by Anne Becker, with the islands in 1995 had no reported cases of eating disorders. Three years later, when U.S. and Britain television programs had been broadcasting there, the research reported that 62% of women surveyed admitted to dieting. Now this is interesting, because Fijians favor voluptuous bodies.
So when will people realize that having plastic surgery makes you look very fake and plastic? It shows that either people are too lazy to work or if they are getting a tummy tuck or liposuction, or they don’t realize that someone actually finds the “bump on the nose” attractive. It’s very stereotypical of people to think that they need to look a certain way for people to like them. I myself am not thin or very pretty. But I do have a great personality that will come out on top in the end.
When you look at someone who is very pretty, probably with botox or surgery, when you meet them, after thirty seconds you want to choke them to death because of how dumb they act. Now I’m not saying that all pretty people are dumb. That would be stereotypical of me, and that’s not me. I am not stereotypical. But then again, aren’t we all stereotypical? Don’t we all assume a certain person will act a certain way based on their appearance? And when we see how they really act, aren’t we surprised or amazed?
There are so many ways to determine what is pretty or not, but there really is no definite definition to pretty. What is pretty anyway? Is pretty going to eventually be perfection?
Good question. Perfection. What is perfection? Does anyone know the exact definition? Perfection in someone’s eyes may be completely different than from another’s eyes.
Even as Bordo emphasizes that some mothers are allowing their toddlers to dress up as Britney Spears on Halloween night, those mothers most likely will regret letting their toddlers doing that when their daughters are sixteen years old, sleeping around, and have a child. Many people don’t realize that what children do at a young age can affect their entire lives. For example, Bordo states, “In the world in which our children are growing up, there is a size zero, and it's a status symbol. The chronic dieters have been at it since they were 8 and 9 years old.” Does this show what the media is doing to children?
Celebrities are unconsciously teaching young children that being super-skinny is ok, no matter what you have to do to get there. “Generations raised in the empire of images are both vulnerable and savvy. They snort when magazines periodically proclaim (about once every six months, the same frequency with which they run cover stories about "starving stars") that in the "new" Hollywood one can be ‘sexy at any size.’” Is that really true? How many stars have you seen that are not a single-digit size? I know that there is some, Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott. But the world (the media in particular) needs to know that not everyone can look the same, or afford to change their bodies for cosmetic reasons. I for one am not happy with the way the world works today, but I haven’t the courage to change it. I just hope that someone else does.