BEAUTY X YOURSELF
by
Ana Cássia
Today the subject that turns around the teenagers, women and men is the question:" I'm so fat!" or "I want to have more muscles".
It doesn't matter, the people
don't care to be healthy, they want, and only think about, the
phyisical appearence.
The interview that magazine Veja did with Gilles Lipovetsky, a French philosopher, talks a little about it: " The man vanity grows up together with the value of leisure, sport, or healthy life. It is different from the woman vanity". It means, women, a lot of them, think of having a beautiful body or a young appearence, much more than men. People use a lot of money for plastic surgery or doing the academy, not because it is healthy. Gilles Lipovetsky says: "fighting to improve the appearence is being the owner of one's own body."
It's important to think that, taking care of your health, your clothes, every thing, is being careful with your body, is improving the appearence, just like Gilles said,"is being the owner of one's own body". Concluding, it is important to think of oneself, but not exagerating.
Source: Revista Veja, 25, de setembro de 2002