Fair

i am choosing to take this time to take about the current state of our celebrity media. we have all often heard about the dangers of anorexia, bulemia, and other eating disorders. we have all also heard about the "political incorrect"-ness or misrepresentation or total disregard for representation of all races and skin colors, types etc. i was just looking at the yahoo homepage, as i often use it for my only source of news in the american world (sad, i know it just seems to be the only source that is so in front of my face i cannot ignore it). i paged through all the popular "first-page" news headlines several intriguing me, "ways to prevent overeating", "control you anger", "obama ticks off las vegas" and more, but one in particular caught my attention.
the picture included several up-and-coming actresses, for "a new hollywood 2010" on the cover of a magazine that apparently made a horrific mistake. as i scrolled through and read the article i realized what this mistake was. after looking at the picture long enough (about five seconds)

you wouldnt even have to read the article to know what i am talking about. the girls on the cover are all about the same body-type (hollywood thin) and about the same pale color. they were also dressed in mute tones, and most were blond, few were brunette, and one was a red head. this mute coloring is supposed to evoke a more romantic sort of soft feathery feel that many people and designers are starting to yet again move away from, however it accentuates the fact that these girls all start to resemble each other, and one common household object for checking cake baked-ness and dental purposes: toothpicks.
i understand that our world (America) is concerned about health issues and the media is moving towards a more streamlined emaciated look, even more so than in past years as evidenced by the particularly thin batch of VS Angels at the show in december however, this is dangerous. we have all these programs to stop the obesity, we have programs to stop the eating disorders and others still to help the overall body image, but we constantly throw out these rail thin images. we contradict ourselves in the most horrific of ways; those who are obese or overweight remain that way because they figure that they can never fit into this new "norm", and the already thin continue to grow thinner to emulate these women who "work so hard" to keep their bodies looking like that. we should want a healthy image for all out there, an attainable goal, and a new healthy look.
our current disregard for all that we have worked for in the past decades for race have seemed to go down the tubes. i understand that many people would see nothing wrong with a slew of "white" women on the cover (i put that in quotes because apparently we don't need a politically correct name anymore, its just normal to be referred to as white amongst a lot of "african american" "native american" "asian american" "hawaiian"...and no longer--"caucasian"). regardless, many ethnicities may not find this cover a problem, but even i find a problem with it. we just put any old teen-y bopper on the cover who may have shown promise in a recent movie, but we do not acknowledge those who have actually accomplished and deserve the title of "a new hollywood". the article talks about these women, and discusses the comments that the editor makes about all the "pale" "button-nosed" "dewy wide-eyed" and get this, "ivory-soap-girl features". yes this may be a description of the girls here but how about the beautiful flawlessness of golden, tan and brown or black skin, or the silkiness of dark hair, or the smooth curves of any real woman out there? the facial features that make any woman distinct from anyone else?

must we live in a world where we strive to look indistinct from each other, must we all fit the rail-thin, curveless, pale, blond, wide eyed image in front of us?

i guess i should be happy they at least didn't say blue eyed, not that there's anything wrong with that but maybe we are moving away from this image slowly, maybe there is hope, maybe we can change it all.