Beauty When The Other Dancer Is The Self

“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self’ focuses around Alice Walker who did not feel beautiful most of her life because of a flaw she had. When she was complimented or told she was beautiful, she refused to believe it. But was the reason why Alice did not feel beautiful was because of her flaw, or because females are expected to look perfect? Would she have felt better about herself if she would have been a male? Alice Walker judged herself so harshly because she was a female, not a male, and was expected to fit societies beauty standards. When Alice was very young, she was called cute and beautiful. She loved getting called those things and it made her beam with pride. Getting called positive things raised her confidence levels. But at the age of 8, when she was shot in her right eye with a BB gun, that changed. Very few people still called her beautiful and when they did, she refused to believe it. It was because the accident she was involved in left her with white scar tissue around her eye. Alice hated the scar and the way it made her look and feel. People often stared at her eye and it made her feel uncomfortable. It lowered her self confidence. Women are often expected to be perfect in many
Instead of the main character going on to feel depressed, ugly, and judged because they were a female, the main character may not have been phased at all it if were a male. A man may not have considered himself ugly like Alice or other women did if he were to be shoot in the eye. A man may not have been phased for a few reasons. He may truly not be bothered by the scar. Unlike women, men are less likely to be judged for having flaws like a scar. Or, a man may actually be bothered by the scar but hide his feelings toward it. He may do this because he wants to seem unbothered and tough instead. He may just want to fit societies ideal picture of a