Starting off...

I found both "Why don't we like our bodies?" and "Only 2% of Women..." fairly compelling. Our view of beauty, our cultural definition of it, is not healthy. It's not realistic and therefore almost impossible to achieve, which is surely the point of the media in pushing such a standard. If real beauty is never completely achieved, you have a continual consumer segment for products that aid in the quest. Therefore I don't find it surprising that only 2% of women find themselves to be beautiful, what normal intellectually honest women can say they are beautiful compared to the likes of Natalie Portman or Keira Knightly?

Physical appearance surely goes a long way in making one beautiful, that can't be rightly denied. At the same time, our fixation on it has diminished the other important aspects that go into making a women beautiful, namely personality and character. Perhaps in that way, the beauty we strive for should be less of that of a model, but more of a Jackie Kennedy type.

I don't think it's a stretch to argue that, as "Why don't we like our bodies?" argued, these unrealistic expectations we've placed on ourselves has led us to almost hate our bodies. I don't feel it's the primary motivation behind horror movies, people just have a fixation on violence, but it's certainly a factor in the increasing levels of such horrific depiction, as the Saw series is evidence of.