This stuck out to me in my reading, “This means that the norms of beauty and aesthetics that these images present in standards that establish white and Anglo features as the desired look and thinness as the essential body type are part of the normalizing gaze that viewers turn on themselves” (111). Who is immune to this, if anyone? I certainly am not. This reminds me of an earlier quote that I noted which said that whiteness is one determinant of beauty in the media. As I said before, I appreciate this truth, but even reading this is probably [definitely] doing some damage to me psychologically. Where does this leave me? How does one beat out what the media makes appear true. How does one defy these myths of beauty? Confidence? How can one find this in such a society? I wish I had time to address this in depth, but I am positive that Practices of Looking will.
