These standards that women are expected to live up to cause them to go to great lengths to achieve their desired look. Women alone are responsible for 80% of individual spending in the United States. (Cohan 324) Much of what they spend their time and money on is looking more like the models in the media. Women see other females on television or in magazines and sometimes are persuaded to think they would be more desir

get a sense of betrayal or dissatisfaction to see that women in their life have flaws or are inevitably too tall, too short, too fat, too skinny or too buxom.” (Cohan 324) I am certainly not claiming that every man in this world is disgusted or let down when they are with an overweight woman. But many men feel they have achieved something great if they have a beautiful girl hanging on their arm. The pressure to look gorgeous affects the way men and women act towards each other.

Television, radio, and magazines cannot always be expected to give a completely truthful example of real life. Without exaggeration, we would not have advertising. But women are, and should not be, treated as mere objects of desire and an unrealistic goal to many. There are ways to make women appear more natural, and at the same time, reveal part of their person that is their inner beauty too.

People are told what to look like by the media even as children. Males’ ideas of what is attractive in a woman are sculpted by what they see most, which often is television or the magazines they read. “The depiction of women as sex objects affects attitudes of men, who from the earliest age are besieged with images of the ‘ideal’ woman.” (Cohan 324) Men can subconsciously compare girls they meet to who is on the tube. It is not a crime to do so, but sometimes, men set their standards too high. In Shallow Hal, Hal won’t

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