Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Beauty and Sexism

Something I find really annoying is the idea that images of physically attractive women (large breasts, long legs etc) are seen as derogatory. WHY?

We see frumpy looking women and are told "this is what real women look like", I'm not so sure. Of course, not every woman is a supermodel, but of the two ideas I think that it's quite obvious which one women themselves would rather look like. Almost all women wear make up, because they want to look more attractive, it's a psychological thing. Both sexes try to look attractive though, it's just a lot more socially acceptable for women to be seen making an effort about it. A man who spends a long time doing his hair will be mocked for it (by women as well as men), and a man who wears make up will be openly laughed at or worse. But, at the same time, a guy with greesey hair and a bad complexion won't be seen in a favourable light either.

And what's worse is, people think that having attractive women in advertising and media is a bad thing, but the truth is, if ugly women sold things then they'd be on posters instead. As it is women don't aspire to look ugly and men don't aspire to have sex with ugly women, and we arn't brain washed that way, it's in our genes to seek out an attractive mate, we'd have to be brainwashed to think the opposite.

I just can't see WHY you'd want to go against all that and push the idea that attractive women should be excluded from media, personally I can't imagine anyone other than jealous femanists that would think like that.

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