Fake Love - Blog 4

 This is Emo, is based around a solid idea of "fake love". Fake love is what we see in movies or in the media, everyone's so happy, but not happy in their relationship, just being able to say "I'm in a relationship". This article, "This is Emo" by Chuck Klosterman reminded me of his other article, "Ten Seconds to Love" featuring Pamela Anderson and her relationship with Tommy Lee. Tommy Lee is famous for being famous, and Pamela is famous for being a beautiful sex icon and her relationship with Tommy Lee. They didn't have an actual, love-romantic relationship, rather making their relationship the way the public wanted it to be. A fake love relationship.

The Female Body & Pop. Culture - Blog 3

This week, we watched a video of an average woman being transformed/photoshopped into model material. That was what caught my attention the most-  Being young, well actually up until now, I always believed what I saw in magazines. Beautiful people;  I thought they were all truly beautiful. And thinking back to that now, it did honestly kind of depress me in a way. Seeing all of these famous beautiful people, then looking at the average me. But now I understand that they're all probably pretty average themselves and just photoshopped beautiful, or  even people with beautiful bodies are just all drugged out, or have terrible eating disorders. I think showing "overly-attractive" people in magaizines isn't good for anyone, I know I certainly feel a little 'average' after reading a magazine. So I'm sure other girls probably do too.
When it comes to my own attitudes on bodies, I wish I didn't have an opinion. I wish no one judged others on the size or shape of their bodies, but that's just the way it is. And I wish that personality over ruled the body, but it doesn't. I think it's terribly pathetic, but that's just the way of America.

Sex & Sexiness - Blog 2

Sex and sexiness is 'whats in' right now. So many people are obsessed/obsessing with the way they look and the way they think others are perceiving them. Some people just put some makeup on in the morning to feel a little better, buy some new clothes, look great occasionally..  But there are others, taking it to the extreme in a negative light; starving themselves to lose weight/diet pills, fake tanning, surgeries even. But why is physical appearance all that matters about being sexy? It appears that way in the media- and that's where we went wrong. I think posting photos of actual girls that are happy is what it would take. Actual girls with some freckles, or maybe one who's a little overweight, etc. Sadly enough though, that's not what its like in the real world. I think the only way that would change if everyone could accept personalities over appearance, unfortunately though, I don't see that happening. 
- One point, I had watched this very inspirational video clip on youtube, and one of their quotes were, "do not read beauty magazines. they will only make you feel ugly." And I do like to refer back to that, where are the average girls in magazines? It's hard to show off a new clothing item on a little bit of an overweight girl, but that's not the point. If that girl is happy in her new outfit,and wearing it with a smile, that's what's worth capturing.