Justine Fernandez

Professor Young

Eng 1000

November 4, 2014

Beauty, What is it?

Beautiful In my Eyes

            Do you ever just look at someone or something and think that they or it is so beautiful? Do you ever wonder why you think something is beautiful? Beauty is both constructed by society and our ancestors. The way that we think doesn’t just come from automatically believing something is beautiful but there is a reason behind it. Beauty being constructed is a good thing.

            Overall beauty being constructed is a good thing. Many people look at beauty being constructed as a bad thing because it persuades us to look at things differently when in reality it is still your still voicing your opinion on things whether society thinks its beautiful or not. For example in the ted talk with Cameron Russell she walks out on the show in super model clothes and people perceive her as a perfect human being due to the fact of how she came out. But what makes her the perfect human being? Because she wears fancy clothes and that fact that she is skinny and tall? Society shaped us into believing that beauty is that. That beauty is being skinny, tall and having nice clothes. This is a positive thing because we have a different view of what is beautiful. We have a wide range of depth.

            In addition, beauty is being constructed by magazines and models but beauty is also being constructed by false advertisement. By false advertisement meaning breast implants, Botox and even in some cases prostatic limbs. While enhancing yourself with plastic in your body is viewed as a bad thing it can be a good thing because it brings different ideas and different countries together. For example in the Ted talk with Aimme Mullins she is viewed as a normal human being. She is viewed as a regular person until she reveals her story and the fact that she has prostatic legs that help her function on a daily basis. She constructed beauty by enhancing what she didn’t have into a thought that no matter who you are you are beautiful even if you don’t have two functional legs. She constructed beauty so that the rest of the world can have a pieve of them that is beautiful as well. That it goes away from what everyone else thinks is beautiful. It gives a different view on beauty. Beauty has many different angles.

            Therefore, Beauty is something that we don’t have a choice of weather or not we think is beautiful. What we think is beautiful is already programmed in within us and something that we do automatically without even thinking about. Things that our ancestors thought were beautiful back then we still have the same perception on it just altered over time. For example In the Ted talk with Denis Dutton he talks about how beauty is something that we have no control over and that Charles Darwin created for us. Something that we think comes so simple to us is really something that we don’t have quite the control over it.  We don’t have control on what society thinks is beautiful because it is created for us by people around us. We ultimately go with what everyone thinks is beautiful hence trends in fashion and the in and outs of a social group.

            In conclusion, beauty being constructed is a good thing. By beauty being constructed it opens doors for us that we never knew really existed. It gives us different perspectives on beauty. It goes to show that beauty can be constructed like a super model or it can be an enhancement to our every day lives that we just believe is an addition that we take full advantage of and we tell society it is beautiful by a full movement. Beauty is constructed in the best way possible to fit human needs in every way.