Professor Tanya Sheehan\u2019s lecture was particularly engaging because of its relevance to pop culture.\u00a0 She discussed the way that academic art principles were at work in the way that we understand reality TV and mass media, and she even included a portion where people used their iphones, which added to the point she was making about the excessive accessibility of plastic surgery.\u00a0 This type of passive body amendment, visual plastic surgery, or photoshop, is pervasive in our culture.\u00a0 The rise of social media, and the body as a performance has created an immense need for people to both blend in and stand out all at once.\u00a0 This idea of passivity in the way that plastic surgery is sold is fascinating.\u00a0 First, there are the ways that plastic surgery can be used in the virtual realm, such as apps and photo editing software.\u00a0 But even with the shows that Professor Sheehan shared, the women are not their own agents of change in the plastic surgery that they go through.\u00a0 They undergo a procedure that someone else determines, and someone else performs on them.\u00a0 They are just a blank canvass on which societal expectations for beauty play out.\u00a0 What does this mean for the way that mass media teaches us about our bodies?\u00a0 Are our bodies not even truly our own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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