Too much Pressure to Conform?

    I'd like to focus this post on society, and the pressures we face in every day life.  The concept of what makes a man or a woman attractive in todays society is based heavily on asthetic appearance. Examples of such pressures were talked about during class discussion.  Today's cover girls are altered by photoshop.  While it is true some of them are naturally beautiful, make up and doctored photos are extremely common these days.  This is also true with men's health magazines, so these societal pressures are abundant for both males and females.  Likewise, both are expected to live up to unreachable standards.  Even the articles in said magazines say how every man or woman has to strive to be a certain way.

      I don’t understand how they can put such a cruel trick of nature in that magazine, because it’s unrealistic for girls to live up to doctored image and equally ludacris to expect a magazine to tell you everything you need to know about your body or how it should be. Everyone is different. Every human being is unique. Women and men alike have different features that make them attractive to others, and they shouldn’t need a magazine or any form of media to tell them how to be themselves.

Just be yourself, the right people will come along.

So with this I ask you, do you feel like society pressures us too much to be a certain way? Is it healthy? If so to what extent should we try to conform to be the ideal man or woman?