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Face Value

There is no doubt that physical beauty is a highly-valued quality in our culture. Whether we wish to believe it or not, appearance is the first layer of our character, and people pass judgments on us based on this superficial aspect of our bodies. In spite of our many proverbs: “Never judge a book by its cover,” “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” “Beauty is only skin deep;” we are constantly told, through literature and the media, that our outer shell determines our value.

The beauty myth is the conventionalized, mass-marketed idea of female attractiveness as thin and flawless. It surrounds and bombards women and young, impressionable girls with “perfect images” that they should strive to attain as they search for an image to identify with. The scope of these images can appear in a variety of avenues that we are confronted with everyday such as: magazines, advertising and television. The women displayed in these images are often unrealistic......

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