Keeping the Sex Class on its Beauty Toes – with Fotoshop by Adobé

Lets not forget the video-games, and other media that sensationalizes unrealistic expectations of beauty. Media that caters to “femme fatale” characters with exaggerated, exorbitant features that no woman could have lest Dr. Frankenstein spent 5 years cutting on her. Anyone can be beautiful when you use smoke and mirrors, hundreds of thousands of dollars on surgery, and extensive digital editing. More than half of Hollywood has been under the knife at least twice, therefore much of their beauty is artificial, more so on magazine covers.

However, this says nothing about the value of beauty and a lot more about peoples obsession with unrealistic levels of perfection or beauty. Moreover, it is ultimately sexist, because it’s more often (if not predominantly) the bodies of women edited to make them more “Sexually Desirable” or simply objects of lust. To me, I find that imperfection comes with it’s own beauty, and it deepens my connection to reality. They can have their illusions, I’ll keep my beautiful yet also flawed and imperfect reality. Imperfection is the nature of reality, without imperfection there would be no evolution, and no you or I.

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You should look at the new Lara Croft for the upcoming video-game… She is completely redesigned, and much more realistic. Does that mean she has taken a break from being part of the cultural obsession with beauty, not entirely (she is still insanely cutesy). But it is a lot more gritty, so perhaps this is a sign that it has started to shift. Lara is dirty, beat-up, and bleeding heroine in the new game, getting rid of the busty impossible analogue that stays clean no matter how many zombies, mummies or obsessed Middle-American tribal cult members she dispatches. That being said, video games can be a positive medium, assuming people start making more games and shows with sexism free renders of female heroines that are realistic and gritty rendered versions of average women. While media has been the tool of patriarchal concept, and sexism the same can work in reverse.

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