Body Modification

This week the readings for class dealt with body modifications. This has alot to do with today's world because it is something that occurs everyday and is becoming more prevalent in our society. People are constantly modifying their bodies to look how society tells us we should look. During one of the presentations the question was posed if we felt men define things like intelligence and beauty. I feel like men have a huge impact to defining beauty because women change their bodies to please men so we look like how they think we should. Today the body modifications that we spoke about in class was tattooing. We were given a picture of a women and we had to describe her. It was interesting to see how people compared her in a picture with tattoos compared to one without. I realized before this class that women were percieved differently when have body modifications but i didnt realize how bad it was. When she had tattoos she was looked at as being a "bad girl" compared to not being one when she didnt have tattoos. To me this is kind of ridiculous to judge someone on their apperance because I have two tattoos myself but they both have meaning behind them and im not the "bad girl" they were describing i am actually going to school to become a lawyer.