Women are bombarded with the reminder that every day, you are aging and slowly losing your "appeal." So you better start using this anti-wrinkle eye cream thats $46 for .35 ounces. You'll be happier in 15 years when you need a second mortgage, but you will look fresh and vibrant.
And age isn't always a factor (I just wanted to google image search George Clooney. You're welcome.)
Girls younger and younger are starting to ask for plastic surgeries, cosmetics, etc. to enhance their appearance. Enter, Heidi Montag, who was so pretty naturally... and now she looks crazy and fake.
This is not cute, I'm sorry!
Did she not think she was sexually appealing before? So often I hear my guy friends talking about how they want a nice, sweet girl to bring home to meet their family. Not a bimbo who can't afford to go to a movie because they have debt from plastic surgery!
Side note: my SEVEN year old cousin (2nd grade) got a training bra in her Easter basket (should I yell at my Aunt for giving in or cry because this is what society is doing???) CRAZY!!
Media does a great job at portraying older men as appealing and older women as... let's just say less appealing. The younger a girl is (within legal limits) the better. And if they can create, market, and sell these supplies and surgeries to make you LOOK younger even better! There is a strong correlation, for women, that looking younger increases self esteem and self worth. Aging for men is seen as increasing wisdom, bank accounts, and sexiness. For women, aging is seen as lower self esteem, mid life crisis, and horrible signs of aging. Wow, who knew getting older comes with gray hair, wrinkles, and saggy skin. My grandma always jokes back when we make fun of her wrinkles. She always says how all her hard work in life has given her the wrinkles and dammit she earned them and she isn't about to spend her life fortune to get surgery to fix them. If women could just embrace aging as well as men do, there wouldn't be a need for all those products and surgeries!
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