?Everyday in the United States, women will participate in a daily beauty pageant. Whether they like it or not, women are constantly being judged for how they look or how they carry themselves. According to the article ‘‘with some selfies, the uglier the better’’, women spend so much time tying to hide their flaws because the culture has it set up that you have to be ashamed if you’re not perfect. America has created a Barbie-like standard that women feel like they need to abide by, and following these standards can lead to severe consequences. America’s beauty standards affect the daily lives of women due to the fact that they portray women as sexual objects, cause discrimination, and can induce an unhealthy lifestyle. Beauty standards in America constrict women of their ability to be equal. Women are constantly being told that if they don’t have the ‘‘look’’ then they need to change who they are. Whether it is directly or indirectly, women are now, more than ever being portrayed as sexual objects. In doves photoshop beauty campaign (source #2) every woman who took part in the campaign was made to look like a Barbie. They took away the woman's natural curves and turned her into something unrealistic. Although it was indirect, the message was clear, the photo-shopper wanted the women to be skinny, with long, toned legs, big breasts, a flat stomach and a big butt, also known as ‘‘the perfect woman’’. Pamela Grossman states ‘‘everyone knows what photoshop is now. Everyones seen the wizard behind the curtain in advertising, in Hollywood. We know how the machine works. And so were gravitating toward people, images and experiences that we deem to be authentic, unvarnished and real’’ the sentiment expressed in this quotation allow the reader to depict a picture of what our world is coming to when it comes to the standards of what beauty actually is. Another source, which more directly gets the point acro