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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

One of the most true phrases of all time. Because of the truth in this statement, nothing can be ugly. There will always certainly be at least one person that finds something that is generally described as hideous, as beautiful.

Moles, freckles, and fat are almost always described as unsightly. Magazines tell us about which celebrities have gained 5 pounds or have newly found sun damage on their faces. How awful and hateful of those writers. However, what is even more atrocious is that we, the readers, buy into it and believe the hurtful insults within those pages. Society is falling into a slump of only seeing one figure as the proper representation of beauty: the rail thin, flawless complexion, and long goddess hair of someone who is a Victoria's Secret model.

So if this is what beauty is considered, then what about the millions upon millions of people that don't look like this? Are they ugly? According to the entertainment industry, yes they are. Unfortunately, that is the industry that has the greatest impact on people's lives. It is unfair for the media to portray beauty in only one way. It decreases the self-esteem of millions of people. And regardless of whether or not those people wish to listen to media, they cannot escape it. In the world today, around every turn you make you see more of the same: skinny women in bikinis on billboards and flawless skin in a make up ad.

If you were to take my opinion, the entertainment industry is where the true ugly of the world lies. Perhaps the word grotesque would be a more exact description. They brainwash us into all thinking one thing. They want us to all be the same. Slowly, they are turning the world into mental clones. That is the most hideous thing that is to be seen in our age in time; not the people who have chubby bellies, or moles on their bodies, or freckles and blemishes on their faces.

The cruel industry has gotten people to work out an unhealthy amount of hours, starve themselves, throw up consistently, fritter away money on products that don't work, etc, etc. We are all living at the demand of what we consider a higher society in our modernized world. We all think we have come so far, and have reached such heights in equality, but because of this issue with so-called "beauty" we are the same as we have always been. Stop the madness, and step back and look at this glorious world through your own eyes, not the media's.