Response to "Can Beauty Be Honest?"

Luis Rojas

Friday, October 26

Professor Young

ENGW 1100

Can Beauty Be Honest?

Beauty and honesty are two things that simply do not go together. People all over the world, the media in particular, are too caught up with their so-called “perfections”, that they forget what true beauty is. “Try” by Colbie Caillat simply represents that. Without having anyone to judge you for how you look, everyone would look beautiful. The media sets the standard for what one should consider “beautiful”. The true meaning of beauty should lie within the eye of the beholder. The standards of the media simply cannot be reached because they are trying to create a physical figure that is not natural. When Cameron Russell was speaking and she said it was a construction, the first thing that came to my mind was “man-made”. A person that is man-made is not real, is unnatural. 

There is so much that goes into being beautiful that is completely goes against the meaning of “honest”. Beauty and honesty are two things that simply do not go together. What is beautiful to one person, it might not be to the other, and that’s okay. Colbie Caillat made her point very clear. No one has to try to be something they’re not. Beauty cannot be honest. Beauty is an illusion. Beauty is fake.