Sunny Kim
645 R&W
Amy Lee
05/31/13
Summary-response
Leonard Pittis
Jr., in “Beauty Is Not Just Smaller Than Life,” describes the tendency to be
enthusiastic towards the more slender body shape. The perception of the
beauty has changed. The womanly curves became a bad thing and women prefer to
be thinner. That’s because of the influence of the mass media. Mass media shows
the models that look nice and achievable, so women are getting more
dissatisfied with their appearance. Unlike the feminists who insist that the
solution is for men to stop objectifying women, the author argues that the
gate-keepers of media should become more conscientious about describing the
beauty of women in all its dimensions. We
also have to try to influence the girls closest to us to be satisfied with
themselves.
According
to the author, pop culture makes women frustrated with their appearance and
gives them the desire to be thinner like models in magazine. I agree with the
author. I learned this content when I took the class, the ethics of
communication, in my home university. Mass Media always gives the ideal model
of women, and this model type seems to be achievable. Models appear to commonly
exist in the real world. That concept makes women get some pressure that they
have to get the appearance that the social media gives them. However, as many
people already know, to be similar with the model of mass media is really
difficult, even though the model that media shows exists in real. Persistence
to get ideal appearance seems to be abnormal in modern society. How about we think
about what is more important, appearance or mind.
