The perfect woman has been painted as an unapproachable, sexy, flirtatious, skinny, flawless creature that doesn't exist in reality. Bolter and Grusin write "Virtual reality therefore contains the contradiction that it is both Cartesian and anti-Cartesian, abstract and sensual, centered and fragmented, perhaps even simultaneously masculinist and feminist in orientation-all because, like other transparent technologies, while seeking to enact the male gaze, it also leads to a fascination with the many viewing and viewed positions made possible by the mediated self" (253).
Society has remediated the way a woman should look over the years. The size of a woman has been a distinct part of this "designation" of beauty. Marilyn Monroe was a beautiful woman who, in today's standards, would be considered overweight. She was the perfect image of what a woman should be in her day and the fact that the most recent years have created such a malnourished rude woman as a new role model should be seen as atrocious. Our culture changes from era to era and there's no way we can anticipate what will be seen as "right" for the next generation. Forming these images of perfection from any era will forever be a part of what virtual reality's purpose will be. Our society continues to designate what is beautiful and what is not. It will never stop.
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