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The Beauty Myth
Title: The Beauty Myth
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1477 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Beauty Myth
"The Beauty Myth"
Our society is full of tremendous diversity: we are tall, short, fat, and thin. Our colors
range from blue-black, copper, olive, and pink. Yet we are all measured against the same
unrealistic standards promoted my the advertising industries (Boston Women's Health Collective
33-34). "Images of beauty vary across ethnic groups, demonstrating how racism and sexism
interact to shape expectations of women" (Kessleman et. al 111). Advertising agencies generally
use young, white, skinny, and attractive …showed first 75 words of 1477 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1477 total…be sexual beings and to stifle their
intelligence as to not intimidate boys. Girly magazines help reinforce some idea that boys are the
most valuable asset a girl can have in her life, second to beauty of course because without that
you can't even have respect. If women are not recognized as human beings and only as sexual
beings than I am afraid sexual violence and inequality will only get worse as time goes on.
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