What should I wear?

“What should I wear?” Women all over the world are waking up to this dilemma and continue to ask if the outfit they have on makes them look fat, or if they should wear the black heels or the gray heels.

Do women wear the heels because they’re cute? Or are they subconsciously buying into an industry because that is how society says they should look?

Normally we would not think of American women as being victims of colonization because they think that since they are citizens of a free country, every choice they make is based on what they want.

This is not the case.


Women set out to project an image of themselves with the clothes they wear, but sometimes this image becomes clouded with what society presents as acceptable and desirable. Women continually allow their minds to be colonized by these images and find themselves dressing in certain ways, but many may end up dressing that way due to the images rather than the personal expression they think they are showing.

A Honolulu model...sporting sex?

It has always been important for American women to be attractive. In the Cold War, America took pride in their women because instead of working like manly Soviet women or becoming involved in politics, they focused on becoming sexually attractive housewives and consumers. America valued their women for this because it showcased the fact that America was a superior country since their women were so liberated that they did not have to work. These ideas kept women in the home in order to raise the children and become objectified wall flowers for their husbands, and out of the business and political world—man’s realm.

The concepts from the Cold War that that tried to domesticate and contain female sexuality through the media still exist today. Victoria’s Secret has a “Hello Bombshell” push-up bra, in which “bombshell,” a term used in the Cold War, refers to women who needed to be tamed into animals like kittens, chicks, and bunnies.

The image of the “Playboy Bunny” isn’t a coincidence.

Women continue to be objectified by clothing they think they want because it makes them “feel” sexy. However, women only feel sexy because that is how the media tells them they will feel. It tells them that is what they need to feel sexy and to make their husbands happy.

American women, although now more involved in the world of politics and business today, are still good consumers, and will continue to be as long as they allow themselves to be objectified by buying into what the media wants them to do or be.

This is why American women buy high heels—not because they are comfortable, but because they enhance so many aspects of themselves that the media says need enhancement. This is why women go to Victoria’s Secret and buy expensive lingerie, because they want to be that sexy housewife for their husband when he gets home.

Women’s minds can be colonized by the media without even realizing it. Women become so accustom to living in that mind set that the images the media hands them are all unquestionable, when in fact they need to be questioned. The minds of women should not be able to be colonized so easily.