Beauty Bias

Appearance discrimination is probably one of the worst yet most ignored issue in my opinion. Young girls are put in a world where they think they have to look like the perfect (digitally retouched) models all over the magazines. Its bad enough they have to suffer through that through the "awkward teen" years but to have to go though that all their life is just ridiculous. Woman in positions of power who may be as old as 74 should be focusing their attention on our government not botox and hair dye. I wish it weren't true but i strongly believe that more attractive people will get a job over someone who is "lower" in the looks department. Department stores are the worst with that kind of thing. They need a pretty face to attract costumers so if your not "perfect" then they ll just keep looking.

My friend was telling me how this actress (possibly Sarah Jessica Parker, i forget) went on a talk show and made a video of her daily routine. She went through hours of make-up (with stylists), a few hours of hair (with stylists) and she took a picture of herself. This picture was also digitally retouched first and she looked gorgeous. then she did her own hair and make-up and took the same picture without any re-touching. she looked completely different and the host of the show asked her why she did it. She said her daughters were at the age where they thought they had to be skinny and perfect and she wanted to show them how much work and retouching goes into making the pictures they see everyday on billboards and in magazines.

If making appearance discrimination illegal will help then so be it but i don't think it will be that easy. You need to change the way people think or they will just be sneakier when they do discriminate.