Socratic Seminar"Beauty or Fat?"

12/4/07

Well it comes quite interesting to me that most people in America want to be skinnier which leads to what i want to talk to you about. Did you know that America does have the fattiest people but the skinniest models? Well that was mentioned in our class discussion. What The morality of fat and what its doing to people know a days. And The globalization of beauty. Many people are pressured to do something when it comes down to beauty. Usually parents don't want they're children to put make-up etc. but children now a days are pressured to rebel and do what ever they're friends want them to do. The beauty industry to me just wants to sell products and will go and do anything to find out the new thing that might improve beauty. But what kids don't know they don't have to put on make-up just to make themselves look beautiful. I think people shouldn't go to an extent of damaging your body just to enhance beauty the natural beauty is inside you. The same goes to people who think they're to fat. People are force to think they're fat because of what the television thinks is beauty. But if you think about it back in the earlier ages people liked upset women instead of skinnier women because if you were some one that was upset mean that you can afford food but now it is the total opposite. My favorite quote from both articles was one was by a magazine editor and she says that "There is no one type-quite the opposite." To me that send a big message because she just basically siad that you don't have to want the same body as some one else because there is no one type of body.