Our Vision of Beauty is Distorted(?)

2 Responses to “Our Vision of Beauty is Distorted(?)”

1. Richard Taylor on May 4th, 2009 2:38 am

   Interesting but we have been manipulating images since before women were wearing corsets. Thousands of years ago tribes delineated themselves by the way they made themselves up, often using scaring and other permanent enhancements, in pursuit of their idea of ‘beauty’.

   Is what we do worse? Probably at at a psychological level it is, but lets not kid ourselves that manipulating a women’s image to match an unrealistic view of perfection is something new; it isn’t.

2. PickledEel on May 4th, 2009 2:52 am

   Hi Richard – you are probably right. After all, did not Ester spend a year getting prepped with the makeup and clothes for the beauty pageant of the king? (Those Iraqi’s always get the pretty girls!) Trouble is the imagery today is so pervasive – even more so than when I was travelling to school on the Collingwood line and having my eye distracted by a Malboro cigarette billboard with a bikini clad inhaler!

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