The Controversy Between Age And Beauty

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Age and Beauty In the 1992 fantasy-comedy, Death Becomes Her, Golden Globe Winner Goldie Hawn (IMDb, 2016) and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep (IMDb, 2016) star as two middle-age women who intend to freeze the aging process with the help of an elixir promising to grant eternal physically youth. Although this seems a grandiose potion given the benefits, unfortunately it is only a fantasy. Similar to the premise of this movie, youth equates to beauty and has been a topic of debate among society on how beauty is defined. While such elixir to defy the aging process does not really exists, other alternatives such as face and body creams, Botox, makeup, drinks, and of course the most extreme of circumstances plastic surgery are alternatives …show more content…

Images of beauty are exposed and represented in everyday lives, such as in sports, magazines issues, movies, book novels and it trickles down to local soap operas and sitcoms. Both men and women must meet the “Hollywood” standards of beauty and good looks if they want to be successful. The media’s purpose to portray the standards of beauty is to sell their products oftentimes using young and beautiful models with good looks to entice the consumer and reinforce these images as beauty, for everyone to emulate. Furthermore, there are campaigns the media utilizes to grasp the attention of the consumer through the method of oversexualization, a tactic usually directed to the adult consumer. However, the youth population has become affected now more than in past decades, as technology has made it more accessible with mobile pads and mobile phone devices. Television also has an influence and young and old alike making them believe that long, thin silky limbs, large breast, small nose, and perfect white straight teeth and supple lips are important characteristics of success. Men have, in some way or another have also been expected to hold a masculine physique that may be unchanged in the last 50 to 60 years, but must still represent an expression of mystery and chiseled jaw and a certain amount of muscles and physical appearance usually represented by younger

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