Modern insecurities influenced by modern mass media

Plastic surgery. It seems to be a new fad in this modern era. If you don’t particularly like your face or some certain feature on your face or even anywhere else on your body you can just make an appointment and get it fixed. Our culture has developed a body practice that can define who we are and can strip you of your original identity and give you a completely new one. Let’s talk about Botox. It’s the new praxis of the 21st century, along with breast enhancements, but that’s another story. It seems, correct me if I’m wrong, that women turn to Botox more than men. Why is this? Women are more prone to insecurities of the body. They are placed in the spot light of society and examined under a microscope know as the media. Take the show The Real Housewives of Orange County for example. This show depicts women who always look the part: perfect faces, perfect clothing, and perfect social status. Average women she this show and feel insecure about themselves and thus may be more likely to turn to Botox and plastic surgery. We as a culture have become docile to the ways of the media: “if you don’t look perfect, you can be perfect just call this Doctor”. The rhetoric of this issue is that it builds us as a people into insecurities that were normally not there. These insecurities then shape us and we lose our original je ne sais quoi transforming into media controlled puppets.