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Learn to see through the pictures
In today’s society its more than often the men who are blamed for the injustice against women relating to the unfair equality against women. In some cases with all right but not always. The worksituation maybe the one thing that is most in focus, but there are other things worth mentioning too. Things that you can’t just blame the men for.

People today are constantly haunted by ideals and fashion and those ideals you should try to strive and live up to. The perfect woman should be so thin that you could consider her as an anorectic, but still have so large breasts that she nearly tips over. The pictures that massmedia creates of women, and men for that matter, are twisted and unreachable. The women at these pictures look like they do with help from personal trainers, diets, makeup artists and air brushes. They are completely perfect but what’s worth saying, not real.

That extra pound that makes a woman to what she is, a woman, and gives her shape the personal trainer takes away with some help of a strict diet, which also often comes in hand with starvation. The tone of the skin that can be a bit uneven and the dark rings under the eyes the makeup artist takes care of as she at the same time picks out the latest in fashion and accessories. The remaining details like the white smile is easily fixed with air brushes.

It’s pictures like these which makes us believe that this is what men want. That nothing else is accepted and therefore this constant fear and insecurity of not being good enough, a feeling of not measuring up.
The poster by the bus stop of the half naked model is obviously attractive, of course. And not only for the men, for all of us, because who doesn’t like beauty? But what we then have to remember are the facts above. The pictures are evident but not real. We do know about these facts, men do too. We also have them in the back of our heads, its just a question of making these facts count.

The whole thing really just takes its place because you as a woman think that just seeing that ideals like her on the bus stop exist, if only on picture and not in reality, so is this what the male part of the society wants and want us to strive for. We think that it’s those ideals that men and the rest of the society compares one too, but when it really comes down to it its only the own individual who does it.
Our biggest enemy are not the men, its ourselves. We women have a tendency to put the faults that we feel we have on men and make it to something they reject and don’t want or like. We let ourselves be effected in a negative way by the pictures, which is more than understandable considering the pressure we have on us relating to looks. But if we now do let us be effected, it’s then something that we have chosen ourselves and have to take on our own shoulders. It’s our own undertaking and we can’t then lay our own insecurity and our own dissatisfaction on someone else.
You have to learn to accept yourself before you can even imagine that other people do it.