Deeper Beauty - Oziel Juarez

Reading the section about the "beauty" ideal made me really upset. It shows such a deep and internalized hatred of oneself, which people would really want to fit this mold of the beauty ideal that western civilization has implemented and forced upon the world. Looking at the current culture today, most people who get plastic surgery to “look better” are usually backed up and reassured that they are doing the right thing because it’s their choice. This logic is flawed because the person wanting to make that decision for themselves is flawed, I believe. Americans especially, have a flawed thinking, because of the western media putting images of perfection and beauty ideals that people, especially women, cannot actually fulfill. And so these people go on and get plastic and cosmetic surgery because of this. So many people think that they’re doing this procedure because they want to, but in actuality, if we go deeper into that reason it’s because they were told to do it, and they are just doing it subconsciously. We then as a culture, applaud them for doing what makes them happy. By doing this, we are again ignoring the deeper meaning behind this and just continuing this problem that is being ignored.