BBC Article Reflection

Today in humanities we had a conversation on this article: Is Beauty In the Eye of the Beholder?. Many good points aroused during our Socratic seminar. The main point was what Zac said in my opinion, that the government will have to intervene in order to solve this crisis. I agree, because why would the beauty industry otherwise stop making and sending their products to other countries worldwide. Also, a big point was how girls are being dragged into the beauty industry's culture at a very young age, and there is little parents can do to stop it short of cutting off their children from all types of media. Even subtle things are corrupting their fragile minds. Take Barbie for instance, she is a doll that is thin and has a rather large chest. Yet if she was human, her legs wouldn't be able to hold her own weight. Either the government needs to step up and start controlling what the media is doing (unlikely) or the beauty industry needs to realize what they are doing and fix themselves (even more unlikely). Countries should have their own opinion of what beauty is, and U.S.A. needs to figure out that beauty is not always on the outside.