Response Paper of a Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
Tiffany Zhang
EN105
Silva Byer
Response Paper of A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? Type 2 1. “It was principally the influence of Christianity……By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only; Christianity set beauty adrift--as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige.” I think this passage is very significant, because there was an old saying in China “The beauty of inside is the real beauty, nobody could keep a beautiful outside forever.” And I agreed with that beauty had been adrift as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment, in fact, sometimes when I heard about the word “beauty”, it sounded like a satire. 2. “‘Handsome’ is the masculine equivalent of ---and refusal of---a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only.” “Women are the beautiful sex---to the detriment of the notion of beauty as well as of women.” In this passage I found that fair could not be exist between Women’s beauty and Men’s handsome. As the author said, women are the beautiful sex, and we would not use the adjective word “beautiful” to describe a man. Why not? God is fair to everyone, woman is not the only gender who has beautiful faces, but also man can be beautiful too. Beauty should not has the gender discrimination.
3. “It is not, of course, the desire to be beautiful that is wrong but the obligation to be---or to try. What is accepted by most women as a flattering idealization of their sex is a way of making women feel inferior to what they actually are---or normally grow to be. For the ideal of beauty is administered as a form of self-oppression. Women are taught to see their bodies in parts, and to evaluate each part separately.” In recent years, face lifting became more and more popular around the world. Women always want to pursue perfect beauty, so there were some women changed their bodies’ parts as very similar to some super
EN105
Silva Byer
Response Paper of A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? Type 2 1. “It was principally the influence of Christianity……By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only; Christianity set beauty adrift--as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige.” I think this passage is very significant, because there was an old saying in China “The beauty of inside is the real beauty, nobody could keep a beautiful outside forever.” And I agreed with that beauty had been adrift as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment, in fact, sometimes when I heard about the word “beauty”, it sounded like a satire. 2. “‘Handsome’ is the masculine equivalent of ---and refusal of---a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only.” “Women are the beautiful sex---to the detriment of the notion of beauty as well as of women.” In this passage I found that fair could not be exist between Women’s beauty and Men’s handsome. As the author said, women are the beautiful sex, and we would not use the adjective word “beautiful” to describe a man. Why not? God is fair to everyone, woman is not the only gender who has beautiful faces, but also man can be beautiful too. Beauty should not has the gender discrimination.
3. “It is not, of course, the desire to be beautiful that is wrong but the obligation to be---or to try. What is accepted by most women as a flattering idealization of their sex is a way of making women feel inferior to what they actually are---or normally grow to be. For the ideal of beauty is administered as a form of self-oppression. Women are taught to see their bodies in parts, and to evaluate each part separately.” In recent years, face lifting became more and more popular around the world. Women always want to pursue perfect beauty, so there were some women changed their bodies’ parts as very similar to some super