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The Beauty Myth - Online Term Paper

The Beauty Myth

The Beauty Myth: How Much Deeper Can It Reach?

If it is possible to think that "The Beauty Myth" is not a major impediment to lives of women worldwide, just take a look at these statements about the cheap and lowly lipstick:

"It's what makes you a woman."-Fashion/jewelry designer Paloma Picasso
"Lipstick is something that makes you feel good about yourself."-Model Naomi Campbell

Both these women were quoted on a U.K. website called www.thefword.org.uk. It isn't surprising that people whose living is derived from women's fashion would be completely attached to the beauty myth. But the myth goes infinitely deeper than that. It is embedded, more firmly than TV journalists in ...

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Do you see an ugly old woman, or a lovely young girl?
Here, from the website which provides such optical illusions (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/teares/gktvc/vc/lt/OpticalIllusions/optical.htm), though none of the others as culturally charged as this, are some hints:
"The young girl's necklace is the older woman's mouth. The young girl's chin and jaw are the older woman's nose." In case you're still working on it, the young woman's ear is the old woman's eye. Or, more simply, fix your gaze on the top half, and you're likely to see the young woman. Fix it on the bottom half, and the old crone will likely appear to you first.
Naomi Wolf, in her book The Beauty Myth, contends that even now, after decades of feminism, women-and men-are attached to the idea that women must be young and beautiful or they are nothing. They are, without beauty and youth, merely old crones, and the crones are powerless. (Notice that the crone face is a sad one; the young woman's face, uplifted and turned ...

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Added: 12/19/2015 07:13:31 AM
Category: Women's Issues
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