In the documentary "Killing us Softly" Jean Kilbourne speaks about the unrealistic images of women portrayed in magazine ads, television ads, billboard ads. Kilbourne argues that these images have greatly effected how society views women as objects and that woman have the pressure to be beautiful, skinny, and sexual to fit this stereotype. Due to such pressures, women are now being taught if the do not fit the "commercial "look then they are deemed to be ugly and should be ashamed of their appearance. Women now feel like they should not be content unless they reach a level of perfection, which is unrealistic because that image will never be attainable.
             Open up any magazine and what do you see? A pore-less, straight haired, skinny model with doll like features posing in a sexual manner. She is flawless, but she isn't real. It is almost to never see a photo of a beautiful model without it being photo shopped. The model in the advertisement ad does not actually look like how she does in the picture. Super model Cindy Crawford once said in an interview " I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford," meaning that no women actually looks like the women we see in our glamour magazines. Yet average women are constantly comparing themselves to these airbrushed/photo shopped women and are torching themselves in a never ending cycle of trying to attain the look that is glamorized by the media.
             If you take a walk down Beverly Hills, what do you see? Women walking around with mountains on their chests and duck-like lips. This is really terrifying because these women are victims of the harmful ads. Now I don't think it is wrong to want to feel good in your own skin but women would not be as unhappy with themselves if it was not for the pressure women face in today's beauty obsessed society. Women feel so insecure and ashamed that they went to the extent to cut open their bodies and risk their lives to ach...