Analysis Of Ted Chiang's Liking What You See: A Film

Disney and Vogue have set unrealistic and detrimental standards for beauty. Many females feel a pressure that they must achieve the standard of beauty presented to them, and even use beauty to define themselves. Today we are bombarded by advertisements in the media trying to sell cosmetic products. The constant influence of these medias conveys that we must improve the way we look in order to be accepted by society. As these standards become more prevalent, so do the amount of women and girls with low-self worth. Ted Chiang’s “ Liking What You See: A Documentary,” introduces the tensions between aesthetic beauty and intrinsic beauty, which is demonstrated throughout the fictional debate about enforcing Calliagnosia. Beauty can be interpreted

Women and girls are constantly striving to become attractive and will use different mediums to achieve this. The society’s focus on aesthetic beauty has been mentioned throughout the debate. The array of opinions made it evident that the sociocultural standards of feminine beauty are presented in almost all forms of media, barraging women with images that portray what the character, Walter Lambert, the president of National Calliagnosia, would consider being a “pharmaceutical-grade beauty.” Calliagnosia is a neurological means of turning off a person’s ability to see beauty in the human face and using this technology Chiang divided the two aspects of beauty as it is able to be switched on and off from a variety of students. The students without the Calliagnosia had the ability to see aesthetic beauty, paid little attention to what laid deeper in the surface of an individual and focused more to the surface. However, since the characters lived in an” image obsessed world,” they failed to realize that external beauty is nothing without a beautiful light within the soul and one can't be recognized without the other which is why these two aspects strain in the

The people that did not have ‘calli’ became conscious on aesthetic beauty and those that did have it were aware about intrinsic beauty. In the debate Joseph Weingartner, the neurologists, stated that clear skin, symmetry, and facial proportions are common ideas of a beautiful face, and women are “magnified if they’re pretty and diminished if they are not.” Females cannot escape feeling judged on the basis of their appearance and the lengths women are expected to go in order to be attractive, is much more significant than the pressure put on men. Moreover, “girls have always been told that their value is tied with their appearance,” which could cause them to reproduce gender