Q: Now that we have read six articles for Popular Culture, look back on those six articles (from Aug. 31-Sep. 14) and explain which of these six articles provides the most provocative and interesting information for the reader. Why is this information interesting? Is this information also something that is important for the reader to know or think about? Why or why not?
A: Personally, I found the "Only Two Percent of Women Describe Themselves as Beautiful" article to be the most interesting. Most times when you see a woman walking down the street nicely dressed, hair done, and face full of make up you think to yourself "Oh, she seems pretty confident." Well after reading this article it kind of surprised me to know that such a small percent of women actually consider themselves beautiful. I think that the media has a had a very big effect on this. Women believe that the media has "upgraded" the definition of beautiful to a point where most of them think the status is impossible to attain. This can then lead to self-esteem issues because they no longer have all of that confidence they may have had before. I think the media needs to learn from Dove's new campaign and not pick such "flawless" women, or not make them look so flawless by using a computer. If the media picks the more "flawaless" women and labes them beautiful, then the women with maybe the slightest flaws don't feel beautiful.
In the article, it dicusses the issue of women feeling unable to use "beautiful" to describe themselves. I find it interesting that in your example (2nd sentence) you don't use the word "beautiful" either. You say the women "seems pretty confident." Are you yourself reticent to use the word "beautiful" to describe a woman?
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