Observation: I came across this video and like many of you will, became irritable and angry.
Osmel Sousa is the president of the Miss Venezuela organization and has been considered the driving force behind many of the Miss Venezuelas who go on to become Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Interntional, and Miss Earth. He's brought 7 Miss Universe titleholders, 6 Miss World winners, 6 Miss International crowns, and 1 Miss Earth. What Osmel Sousa says is beauty, is beauty.
I find it most disappointing that natural beautiful people even recognize that Sousa's definition of beauty is unrealistic and not beauty at all, yet fall into the societal held belief to chase this idea of physical perfection in order to be accepted or considered for various roles. Many of the women know that this ideal of beauty is socially constructed and not realistic, yet allow the media to guide how they make their decisions and definition of what beauty is.
This idea of beauty comes from people like this one man and makes its way across the country, across multiple markets of pageant organizations to other women, other countries and across the world.
The media, the individuals, the groups, and all different realms either push for or against this idea of beauty. Many like the shop owner acknowledge that true beauty comes from within and from your own self esteem, yet does not challenge the widely held belief that beauty is physical perfection and because they do not challenge that idea, they are saying its okay.
Its hard however to be a man or women of your ideals. Like Angelli Ramirez [women going under the knife] many of us succumb to various societal ideas because if we do not, we might not be able to land a job that puts food on the table and takes care of our basic human needs. We might believe it's wrong, but we'll do it anyways just to get by.
I don't know much about Venezuela, but came across this video on the slums and specfically theTower of David in Venezuela. We cannot say that Venezuela is the only country that has this kind of issue, because we see this happen throughout the world-- chasing beauty before chasing basic necessities.
How do we challenge and change macro beliefs when we ourselves are barely able to survive in our own micro world?
Another interesting article related to beauty, Sophia Bush, and Urban Outfitters.
Osmel Sousa is the president of the Miss Venezuela organization and has been considered the driving force behind many of the Miss Venezuelas who go on to become Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Interntional, and Miss Earth. He's brought 7 Miss Universe titleholders, 6 Miss World winners, 6 Miss International crowns, and 1 Miss Earth. What Osmel Sousa says is beauty, is beauty.
I find it most disappointing that natural beautiful people even recognize that Sousa's definition of beauty is unrealistic and not beauty at all, yet fall into the societal held belief to chase this idea of physical perfection in order to be accepted or considered for various roles. Many of the women know that this ideal of beauty is socially constructed and not realistic, yet allow the media to guide how they make their decisions and definition of what beauty is.
This idea of beauty comes from people like this one man and makes its way across the country, across multiple markets of pageant organizations to other women, other countries and across the world.
The media, the individuals, the groups, and all different realms either push for or against this idea of beauty. Many like the shop owner acknowledge that true beauty comes from within and from your own self esteem, yet does not challenge the widely held belief that beauty is physical perfection and because they do not challenge that idea, they are saying its okay.
Its hard however to be a man or women of your ideals. Like Angelli Ramirez [women going under the knife] many of us succumb to various societal ideas because if we do not, we might not be able to land a job that puts food on the table and takes care of our basic human needs. We might believe it's wrong, but we'll do it anyways just to get by.
I don't know much about Venezuela, but came across this video on the slums and specfically theTower of David in Venezuela. We cannot say that Venezuela is the only country that has this kind of issue, because we see this happen throughout the world-- chasing beauty before chasing basic necessities.
How do we challenge and change macro beliefs when we ourselves are barely able to survive in our own micro world?
Another interesting article related to beauty, Sophia Bush, and Urban Outfitters.
If you're interested in the topic of female beauty and how its idealized to perfection check out the series-- Killing us softly
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Thank you for posting this and being aware of the challenge women face. I do think that men also face these issues of beauty and what is handsome. Thank you for pointing out that we need to challenge these ideas and beliefs.
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