For a woman, conventional beauty is her only attribute. She is supposed to have no lines or wrinkles, no scars or blemishes. She is thin, generally tall and long legged, and above all young. All beautiful women in television commercials conform to this norm. The image is artificial and can only be achieved artificially.// Many women go to great lengths to manipulate and change their faces and bodies. More than a million dollars is spent every hour on cosmetics in this country. A woman is conditioned to view her face as a mask and her body as an object, as things separate from and more important than her real self.// Adolescent　　females are also discouraged from growing up and becoming adult. Growing older is the great taboo. Although boys are allowed and encouraged to become mature adults, girls are encouraged to remain little girls, to be passive and dependent, never to mature. Someone placed in a double bind, they are supposed to be sexy and virginal, experienced and naive, seductive　　and pure.// Misleading advertisements and commercials depict a world in which love and passion are reversed solely for products, in which sexuality becomes a commodity, and in which young women are the worst victims.//

　　對(duì)一個(gè)女子來(lái)說(shuō)，標(biāo)準(zhǔn)美是她的唯一標(biāo)志。她的皮膚應(yīng)該天生麗質(zhì)，沒(méi)有皺紋，沒(méi)有疤痕，沒(méi)有瑕疵。她的身材應(yīng)該清瘦苗條，通常是個(gè)高挑個(gè)，雙腿修長(zhǎng)，而青春年少則是首要條件。所有在電視廣告中出現(xiàn)的“花容月貌”的靚女都符合這個(gè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。這種形象被認(rèn)為是人為的，也只有人為可以塑造。//許多婦女盡其所能來(lái)擺弄和修改自己的容貌體態(tài)。在該國(guó)每小時(shí)花費(fèi)在化妝品上的錢(qián)超過(guò)一百萬(wàn)元。女子已習(xí)以為常的視自己的臉蛋為面具，視自己的身體為物品，像是一種脫離了原型而又高于原型的東西。//少女自然成長(zhǎng)也不被看好，年齡上升是大忌。雖然男孩可以成為成熟的男子，并且還受到鼓勵(lì)。但對(duì)女孩的要求確實(shí)必須妙齡永駐，唯唯諾諾，依附順從，永不成熟。對(duì)她們的要求總有兩面性，既要求他們性感多情，又冰清玉潔;既老道練達(dá)，又少不更事;既風(fēng)騷冶艷，又質(zhì)樸無(wú)華。// 在被誤導(dǎo)性的廣告所描繪的世界里，愛(ài)戀和激情只為產(chǎn)品存在，性也成了商品，其中年輕女子則成了最大的犧牲者。//