Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.EDU (lisa ann farmer) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: aesthetics Message-ID: <10907@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 5 Nov 90 19:21:54 GMT Reply-To: lisa ann farmer Organization: Colorado State University Lines: 25 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In article <9011012313.AA11775@rpp386.Cactus.ORG> you write: > > > >Feminine beauty is something which women wish to attain - it has >nothing to do with men, just as the "Bronze Adonis" male form is >something which men pursue and which equally has nothing to do >with women. If you look at the advertising industry and who runs it you would see that this is not true. Women ( and men) are told what they should look like by the patriarchial structure. In today's society a woman who is thin conforms to the "perfect body" image. All one needs to do is to look at our problem with eating disorders to see that something is dysfunctional. I don't like the fact that we have to "attain" beauty. It is something that is inherent is everyone. We, as a society, need to stop thinking of beauty as a goal. Feminine beauty has everything to do with men because they are in control (meaning the power structure/patriarchy). Granted there will always be some measure of whether you feel attracted to someone but it should come from within yourself instead of being shaped by the advertising industry.