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Sunday, July 31, 2011,1:48 PM

Nicole's left for Korea

I miss Nicole so much all ready. She's most likely still on the plane flying over the Pacific Ocean at the moment. One has left and two will follow...

Saturday, July 30, 2011,12:40 PM

Standards of Women

This music video really struck a cord in me, even before I looked up the translations for this song. Probably because I can really relate to this song, but I'm sure that every women out there has felt like this. To feel so ugly compared to other women around them and feeling like they will never find love because they feel like they aren't up to standards on what is beautiful. They really thought out the lyrics for this song, and even the environment for the music video.

I'm glad that 2NE1 made this song because I wonder if anyone girl group would have sung about this. I know that many are taking this song the wrong way; thinking that 2NE1 are saying that they are ugly when they are obviously beautiful, strong women. But even so, I'm sure that they all felt like this in one point in time in their lives. And possibly at times since they are surrounded by many female idols day in and day out. But the main point is that, it's truly sad that women feel like this.

Even the word beautiful creates this image of someone who is the world's standard view of what a woman should look like. Tall, skinny, shiny hair, long legs, big eyes, full lips, perfect make-up and this list could go on for another paragraph. This image is what is plastered all over the media and magazines saying this is what women need to look like if they ever want to be accepted as beautiful. And it's almost expected for women to look like this even though there are thousands, millions who will never achieve what is accepted as beautiful in "modern society". But this shouldn't ever be needed because all women have their beautiful traits and don't have to look like how the media states.

But looking the part isn't enough either. A women needs to just as beautiful inside; kind, caring, knows how to cook, clean, and can just do everything perfect without trying. She basically needs to perfect all around which is absolutely impossible. The sad thing though is that many strive for this perfection.

Are we so brainwashed by the media on what to accept as beautiful and what's not? Probably.

Even though I'm saying all this, I know I'm one of these women who want to strive to be accepted as 'beautiful.' I am trying to be much more comfortable with myself it's extremely difficult. Everywhere there is the media to remind you what a large population things. But I am doing my best to not follow society's standards and just do what I like and think is beautiful.

But who knows, maybe I'm going at this the wrong way or there's a whole other spectrum that I'm not thinking about.

Just to add this in now that I've been thinking about this for the past few days since the video has been released. It just seems like this topic is a popular one these few days. I watched Beastly which was like a modern Beauty & the Beast remake, and I'm currently watching Asuko Martch, a Japanese drama, where the heroine is striving in an almost all boys school and doesn't want to seem weak or held back because she's a girl, even though she wanted to be in a girly school in the beginning.

Sometimes, I wish I was born a guy. I feel like life would be so much easier. I wouldn't have to deal with all these standards and expectations, I wouldn't feel like crap most of the time because I'm not living up to my own high expectations. Also it would just be easier for me to go places and everything all around. I would be able to be out at night without my parents worrying, or be with a significant other without being home a certain time, I wouldn't have to worry about going to other countries where women are still treated with much more restrictions than my own country. It's just difficult being a woman... as much as I love being one, sometimes I wish I wasn't.