Friday, February 18, 2011
Planet Mental
So I'm in line staring at these magazines, and i keep drawing a blank. Not about the subject matter that I'm supposed to be studying/looking for, but the fact that i can't compose a single reason for the existence of any magazine like vogue, vanity fair, or cosmopolitan. I feel that looking at these photo shopped men and women is in essence legal voyeurism. I mainly looked at cosmopolitan. On the cover of this magazine seems as if it's not even trying to sell to strong dominant females anymore. The cover depicted a a very "fine tuned" woman with a pink background(way to be a original cosmo) with a caption right next to it that said sexy eyes, irresistible lips. Do you not think i can't see that cosmo? Or maybe it's that you don't feel that you photo shopped enough so you have to tell me how highly fake beauty has become. Which brings me to my next topic which is opening the magazine. Right as you open the magazine there is an ad for a make up company which had Julia Roberts on it, But it took me a few minutes to realize it was her. This also happened when I flipped a few pages forward and saw a picture of "beyonce", but the only way i knew it was her was after a few seconds of looking around the page to find her name in a small print at the bottom. Now let me tell you that every time i flipped the page I came to not an article but an advertisement, I flipped through again another advertising, so on, so on. It seems the advertising industry is frustrating us into buying a product, like if they shove it down our throats enough we will think about it constantly and eventually try it. like a kid eating a food that he hates when he's older. And every advertisement i passed was either make up or perfume; two of the most unnecessary products on the market other than guns and cigarettes. Is cosmo really trying to say that women are ugly and they stink? I'm just so sick of seeing these girls with caked on make up going out on Friday, obsessed with the outside world. So scared of how people might see them that they don't even wash their fake up off when they sleep. Magazines are the start, and the end result shells of people needing print to lead them.
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I totally agree with you. I think these magazines provide women with unnecessary insecurities so they feel they have to cake on the make up to cover them up. And as for the make up ads, they way the model shows it is never how it actually looks on. It just gives unrealistic ideas of what beauty should be by promoting too thin models with tons of make up and articles on how to turn heads. It's unnecessary and creating a generation of shallow girls.
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting, and I gree with u 100%. Magazines have been like this for years and I think its time to change. These are all false advertisements and its just wrong. Its sad, the messages to our females is that your not beautiful if you dont wear makeup. Its pathetic and its influencing our young teens to wear make-up.
ReplyDeletemadd good points dan! i feel some girls do care too much about how people perceive them and feel the need to put a blanket of make up on themselves. and these magazines are the fuel the feeds the fire. (by the way nice Bundy reference)
ReplyDeleteDan . man i agree with what you said in this blog. More woman/females are too worried about the way they present themselves and the self esteem is out the window. All because of images they see, of females that we all know DO NOT look exactly like the way they are represented on covers of magazines.
ReplyDeletewhile I value everyone's opinion, I like fashion magazines! And a large part of these types of magazines are the ads. We like looking at them in the fashion mags because they are selling what we want, or at least going to want after seeing it on spreads. It might be that a lot people don't like it on a lot of other magazines that are supposed to be "selling something else" Men's Health" should be mostly about health and not whey protein. =)
ReplyDeleteMake up gives you a opportunity to "make up" or "cover up" who you are. My daughter goes to school in California not far from LA. I am sure that she has seen more famous people than she realizes, but since they look totally different in public then what you are used to seeing on the TV or Magazine she doesn't really recognize them.
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