1. In society today, sex sells. People can argue with the statement but in my eyes it's completely true. What brought our society to such a point where its essential to have a half naked female or man with rock hard abs to successfully sell anything? Society always has convinced themselves you need to be a single digit size to be considered beautiful. The world healthy has been thrown out and beautiful now equals skinny. How did our society get to this point though? It wasn't appropriate to have half naked women in the newspaper in the 19th century or 18th century and I don't know if the printing press was even capable of such images. So how did society progress to this ideal?
2. I don't know it it's acceptable to include this picture as part of my question. I believe that the top ad for Victoria Secret would be another ad that Wysocki would we angered by. As a first reaction the ad is pleasing to the eye, like Peek but then when you compare the top picture to the bottom it becomes almost disgusting. I feel as if Wysocki would agree with me. I feel that the point Wysocki is trying to make is very significant to societies current perception of beauty.
3. Although Wysocki is incredibly hard to dissect and read I really appreciate her organization. She's extremely thorough in explaining every part of her claim/theory and backing it up with research. This article is one of my favorites we have read in class so far this year even though I did have a hard time focusing on it. When we talked about it in class I heard mostly dislike and discontent about it from my peers. Was it merely because of the length of the text or it was it because of the topic? If it was because of the topic of the text then our society has truly corrupted some of my peers. After reading the article and understanding Wysocki's research I don't understand how anyone could still not see how society perception of beauty is corrupt.
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