Unrealism

Why does society drive unrealistic images down teen's throats? They all know that nobody should, or can healthily look like Barbie, but it consistently is at the top of little girls christmas and birthday lists. The proportions Barbie sports are completely unrealistic. A person with her measurements wouldn't survive, she would run out of energy within one hour of waking, and her body couldn't support her upper body. Yes it is up to the parents to guide and instruct their children on what healthy bodies look like, but when kids reach the times of saturday morning cartoons, every commercial drives the message through. You need this, look like this, think like this. See Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, Mary-Kate Olsen, Christina Agulaira. I am a staunch capitalist, but driving unhealthy images and ideals into people's mind is wrong. It all starts with commercialism, if it sells, it's promoted.

If you are anything like me, you absolutely hate infomercials. At least some commercials are funny, but I have yet to watch an infomercial that has held my attention for longer than 30 seconds. The abominations take up 10 minutes of time you could be watching your show, and they usually have some sort of celebrity endorsing their product. Or better yet, some annoying shmuck who's sole purpose in life is to annoy the hell out of you. There is always something better that is actually $60 in value, but going for $19.95, and two for the price of one. Oh and my personal favorite infomercial, snuggies. They are this blanket thing that's supposedly is perfect for reading a book, or watching a movie. I personally think they are just colour-coded druid robes. Join some Harry Potter, or Warcraft fan club, and you should get one that looks much cooler, for free. Infomercials set-up the audience to think that this product is amazing, and for such a great deal as well, when really the company paid $0.10 to make it. They sell junk to suckers waiting to buy it. As much as I loathe infomercials, I have to admit that capitalism enables such practices, and therefore benefits society as a whole. Even though much of what it sells are garbage, the act of buying and selling is what has made our society great.

That has been my ranting on unrealistic details of society for today.

Amos13