Who Wore it Best?

I absolutely love gossip magazines, but I rarely get the chance to read them.  So in my most recent visit to the orthodontist, who has and endless supply of magazines from People to Us to Star, I got to read up on some juicy gossip.  One of my favorite segments in the magazines is called who wore it better?  I always scrutinized the women who appeared on the page, and decided who looked prettier.  Then later checked if my opinion matched with the polls.  After watching the documentary Missrepresentation in my critical thinking class, I realized how horribly the media affected, not only the way I looked but how most of society looks at women

Scrolling through pictures on google and based on my experience of reading magazines with this specific segment, I noticed that only women are featured.  In other words, only women are scrutinized, objectified, judged by their outward appearance and ranked by the ever growing standards of beauty.  The women in the pictures are being put on display, not taking into account that they have feelings too.  Realizing this, I understood why girls are so hard on themselves regarding appearance.  It also one of the reasons why we see each other as competition rather than someone we can be friends with. If I were placed in a situation where someone I knew or didn't know was ranked "better" in this case, looks, I would feel absolutely degraded and not only grow to jealous of that person, but also start to hate myself. 

In the picture above both, Gage Golightly and Jenna Dewan Tatutm, look stunning.  There is no need to degrade  a person by their looks.  The magazine company only asked 100 people, which I feel is a small number.  Only 100 people judged these women by their looks, but the whole world will see the unfair results of Gage Golightly's 27%. 

Influenced by media, who's teaching us to judge each other by appearance, It s no wonder that us girls and women feel so much pressure to look good all the time.