the media destroying our culure

I couldn't believe my eyes after watching that Dove video about the model who got a complete digital makeover. It didn't even remotely look like the same person. They changed her complextion, stretched her neck to look longer, made her lips look more full, widened her eyes, arched her eyebrows higher, and thinned her face out. And we wonder why our perspective of beauty is distorted. America has a very superficial view on what beautiful is. In the media's eyes beauty means looking very thin while at the same time having curves. Women go to jurastic measures to look what as they view beautiful. They have breast implants, they get botox surgery, pretty much women will go under the knife just to look good. It is at a very crucial stage because now girls as young as age 9 are noticing all these models in the media and are wanting to look like them. Because of the media more and more girls are developing an eating disorder such as bolemia, or anorexia. I like the Dove ads because it shows everyone what a normal women look like. I believe that the Dove commericals raise girls and womens self-esteem and helps them accept who they are. Back in the 1940's Marilyn Manroe was considered a sex icon and beautiful. In today's standards Marilyn Manroe would be considered fat because she was a size 11-12. And for males they are always pushed to look fit and look masculen. It's a lot of pressure on males because they feel like they need to constently be working out to get girls to like them. The media wants young males to think that their body is the key to get girls. If you're not buff like Brad Pitt then you won't get a girl which is not true at all. I just think that it's absolutley rediculous that the media gets away with showing these kind of things on T.V. People should love who they are no matter what they look like.