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.

It's a Jersey Thing

Recently, i watched an episode of South Park that both annoyed as well as made me laugh. In this episode New Jersey had taken over half the U.S. and Colorado was about to become "West Jersey". All the people from Jersey were characterized as those shown on the stereotypical show "The Jersey Shore". i personally hate that show because all the people on it are from New York and give Jersey people a bad rep. This one family apparently used to live in Jersey but moved away and now that they were closer to people from Jersey their "true personality" came out. The boys gelled their hair up and put on tacky jewelery while the girls put on slutty clothes and had a "not-so-friendly" attitude if you no what i mean. Through out the whole show they kept say "its a jersey thing" so almost everything they did. now i personally think that if they really wanted to capture the essence of New Jersey that defiantly should have put in a few Wawa's to make it legitimate. i love South Park with its crude humor so it bashing the show The Jersey Shore was great. The perfect ending to the show was when Colorado enlisted Al Quedas help and they few several plans into the oncoming Jersey attack. Osama Bin Laden won an award for his service then he was shot in the head. i really do love South Park. =)