Iron Maiden Response and Opinion

Michael F. Jacobson and Laurie Anne Mazur, authors of the Iron Maiden: How Advertising Portrays Women, have hit it right on the head. Reading the words of this article has made me ever angrier at society and the way it makes us women think. Magazines, movies, books, and everything else portrays women as flawless stick figures, giving us normal women no chance at some things. Society thinks that we all should be skinny, wrinkle free, flawless, and beautiful; hell they even make us think it. I cannot tell you how much I try to lose to weight. In the 1960s big was beautiful, well not even big normal. Marilyn Monroe wore a size 12/14 and she was one of the most sought after and prettiest women of the time. Now, women who wear a size 12 are pointed out to be big girls who need to get on Weight Watchers. It is so funny because in reality no one is perfect. Everyone comes in different shapes, weights, and colors, and the truth is we are all beautiful in our own way. Honestly, the funny thing is these models, or so called perfect women, are not even perfect. They are airbrushed. Magazines airbrush and go over all their flaws; getting the kinks out is what I call it. Why can't inner beauty be in? Society not only gets a hold of the women but the men as well. They make the male sex believe that no woman is pretty unless she weighs 90lbs and has flawless features. It is like women are not sexy to a man unless their ribs are poking out and their ass is the size of a tomato. Well guess what I weigh 180 lbs, wear a size 14, and I am still beautiful. It makes me mad seeing these articles and talk shows telling me and every other woman that we have to wind blowable before we are beautiful. I want even get in to the makeup scandal. What is wrong with natural beauty? Little girls are so over whelmed with looking like these models that some make their selves throw up and some just do not eat at all. It is very sad that society is making these trends. If you ask me they are the ones to blame for eating disorders; not the readers the magazines, movies, and all entertainment that puts it out, they are to blame. If every girl could read this article by Jacobson and Mazur then maybe they would see that you do not have to be young and beautiful to be loved. It would actually do all the world some good to get their head out of their ass and look at people for what they are instead of trying to make them something they are not. It has got so bad with these images of what women should be, that all women who have meat on their bones are called fat, ugly, and are just totally secluded from society. Why is being curvy, wrinkly, big butted, pudgy, and all the other norms so bad?