Does technology help shape society’s standard of beauty?
By: Allegra Sudarto
Introduction:
The world we live in today is a world of technology; the advancements in technology has been greatly integrated in our lives, and it is readily available and accessible. Technology has evolved it is not so much of magazines, newspapers, or posters, but technology has made the availability more at ease through smartphones. We are highly dependent on technology as it makes our lives much easier and more convenient. However, technology has raised a social issue – women are much more self-conscious of their bodies due to the influence of the Internet and the advancements of technology. They are bombarded with unrealistic, which are then unattainable standards of beauty as the internet is just at the tip of their fingers – technology such as
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There are no images that feature the real skin, curves, or hair of a woman that has not been significantly altered. This retoucher wants people to realize that the ‘perfect’ models they see on the Internet or on magazine are far from perfect, but the industry has gone so off base that it does not matter anymore. They just redefine look and create images with their own idea of perfection (4) With that being said it makes it clearer as to why the standards of beauty is set at a very high bar as it is not even real. How can women want to compete with a standard of beauty that only came to be because of technology?
The implications of this is that today, a lot of women have eating disorders (such as: bulimia and anorexia) and/or decide to do cosmetic surgeries in order to try and achieve a standard of beauty that has been implanted through being overly exposed to the images on the internet, but who can blame them when they are so easily accessible and they are constantly bombarded with these