The ironic paradox of this quest to have fuller lips, high cheeks, clearer skin, lusher hair and all the other attributes associated with the mythical ideal is that it is an ideal that has been and continues to be constructed by men.
Femininity ultimately remains equated with beauty, not brains with looking smart rather than being smart. Wolf pulls back the curtain on the opposition to reveal that the big muscle behind the subjugation of woman as mere sex objects and creatures of beauty to be seen, but not heard is dependent on weaker tendons in the form of a quest to meet the mythical ideal of beauty. A poisonous substance that drives multiple industries and becomes a partial aspect underlining the success of others. What Wolf means when she refers to “poison” is a toxicity that runs throughout western society capable of infecting the hardest of the hard-line feminists. “Recent research consistently shows that inside the majority of the West’s controlled, attractive, successful working women, there is a secret `underlife’ poisoning our freedom infused with notions of beauty it is a dark vein of self-hatred physical obsessions, terror of aging, and dread of lost control.” We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Ī key point for understanding what Naomi Wolf really means-broadly speaking-by the “ The Beauty Myth” arrives very early in the text.
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