Why are so many young adults and women in the US so proccupied with their looks ?
365670
Too much reliance on media/television for child-minding so that parents have time to be selfish and pre-occupied with everything other than proper child-rearing.  Children learn to behave the same way as the people they see in the movies/cartoons/advertisements, etc.  Superficial.  Then they go on and have kids, continue the cycle... rubbish child-rearing, not enough time being spent on teaching substantial values.  Plus, loving thy neighbor doesn't sell lipstick, does it?
1136567
We are all striving for perfection because of all the tv ads, the magazines showing perfect women.  Men make up feel we have to be perfect also.  They check out the perfect ones, not the anorexic or heavy ones.  It is all because of our culture.  We should accept ourselves for who we are and if no one likes us, they aren't worth knowing.
860912
Because we live in a society that that demands perfection. People want to feel beautiful and an example of beauty. Like models. Skinnier people are more confident with their body and how  they expose themselves. Some overweight people get depressed and offended easier. They also might feel like they don't belong.
50321
They look good. Thats what it is. We've traded talent for looks. Its sad really, many very talented people who don't fit into the western mold of beauty go unnoticed.
135101
why? is this another attempt by those who don't consider themselves attractive to punish those who are.  I'm really tired of this anti-beauty push.  People actually get upset at ads in magazines and people on television for looking attractive.  Guess what, you don't have to watch it.  Those people on magazines and television are real people too.  What is wrong with them being attractive and anyone being attractive for that matter?  I swear because "America" as a whole is becoming more fat and obese they would like to condemn the rest of the people who have still retained some measure of athleticism and beauty because we make them feel bad.  Tough luck! Keep the beauty contests!
558239
We really do live in an age of the Cult of Celebrity all over the world.  We HAVE to have the right clothes, HAVE to have the right places to hang out.  Girls grow up thinking that they have to look like this celebrity or that one, nevermind their own beauty.  So much plastic surgery is done now a days so that we can have the perfect breasts and the perfect nose because thats what we see on the cover of vogue and rollingstone. \nIf they have brains and some talent they better have the looks to go with it because they dont count for anything without the looks.  Thats what society has told them this day in age.  And I think its sad.
663696
Because they deep down inside they still believe that once they hit the age where they can no longer bare children they are worthless, unattractive and unneeded.  Also, it's a basic female belief that old = ugly.  Unfortunately, this is something that they've done to themselves.  Just pick up any Cosmo or Glamor and flip to any page.  That is what they believe that they have to live up to until the day that they die.
1134061
Because most people aren't as beautiful as you.
310473
women have always been the object of beauty in history. women traditionally are the more attrative from the two sexes. plus there is more women then men so there is certainly a bigger market and more money to be made. men are usually the ones who pay less attention to clothes considering they are usually the ones going to work making money to take care of the family. this is if you focus globally and not domestically.
389280
No, it is not just you. You are right! Almost every supposedly "gorgeous" woman on tv is terribly thin. Some of them look just plain skeletal! Even the older "beauties", I mean "bitties" are sickingly thin to try look young. Look at old ass Farrah Fawcett! She's too old to be that skinny and she's always sitting Indian style like a young teen girl, giggling and tossing her hair. As we get older, we gain weight. Its for health reasons. Our bodies become more fragile as we get older and our organs need the extra cusion.
1152159
The media is to blame. \n\nEverybody looks so perfect in magazines, television, and movies, that we subconsciously feel that we must look like them.
670189
What you say is true, but individuals want to fit into their society, and since young women are more desirable, then women tend to lie about their age.  Not all...
571346
Thank you!  I agree.  It's because society is full of shallow little people who only care about themselves, and how they are perceived. They are so desperate for a compliment to boost their confidence that they'd even take them from strange wierdos in the internet.
404853
i believe that's what society forces into the minds of people. Sex is everywhere and highly marketed so automatically because of the way our society market it our youth and young adults feel they have to do it.
288843
It isn't even that. To a large extent society determines what people find attractive. Not too long ago men went wild over a woman's legs, now it is breasts, soon it will be nostrils. In harder times overweight women were considered particularly attractive. Far too few people are willing to work to see the innate beauty of a person; they'd rather take the easy way out and only see what they think they should see.
421672
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the main reason why women tend to be better-groomed than men is because women are judged more on their looks than anything else. Therefore, they are pressured to try to make themselves fit the standard of beauty of the society in which they live.\n\nMen, however, have almost all of the political and monetary power, and since they have so much power and aren't in a subordinate position, they aren't pressured to conform to the standards of more powerful people as women are.\n\nThat's the reason why it's OK for a man to look like Rush Limbaugh or Karl Rove, but it's not OK for a woman to look like Rosie O'Donnell.
608006
A lot of times yes. Or insecurity. They are not sure of themselves, so they have to create a big scene or just act an azz so that they feel better about themselves, or so that they will appear a certain way in other people's eyes.  And its a shame cuz usually people can see right through them.