This transcript excerpt is from a short documentary (Misty Tripoli - Cover Girl Culture) where multiple speakers discuss how media defines and enforces narrow beauty ideals. Speakers describe the media message as telling people to be skinny and alter facial features, promising ‘perfection’ through conformity, and privileging corporate/advertising interests over individual well-being (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual).
Like, if you were to describe to me what you hear from the media.
What would you say?
The media usually tells us that we have to be skinny and that we have to have big lips or small noses or certain things about us.
The media basically tells us what's beautiful, how thin we should be, how we should look, what we should wear, how much we should show. They try to tell us like, you need to lose weight or you need to gain weight, or you need to paint yourself like this or look like this.
Everyone wants to be perfect. Like deep down everyone does, but so they promote that and say, well, if you do this, then you can be perfect. It's just something that everyone wants to achieve.
You look in Hollywood and what's in there or whatever they're advertising on television. Basically, it's not really in the eye of the beholder, it's in the eye of the money holder.
Who defines it? I don't know, but it's not us and it's not the right people, but it's someone making a lot of money, making a lot of money at the expense of our well being. And not only our physical well being, our mental, emotional and spiritual well being. It's too much a part of our lives for it not to be.
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