Size 6 Mernissi Summary

In the essay Size 6 Mernissi compares the different beauty standards set in western countries to Eastern countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and her home town in Morocco. She uses Pathos to talk about her personal experiences with these ridiculous standards set by western society. In the first paragraph she compares these standards to a veil, much similar to the veils women in eastern countries wear. The metaphorical veils are forcing women to limit the beauty they project into the world. These veils are limiting women who are not in the “standard” size four or six to project their beauty, because they’ll get ridiculed or judged.
Mernissi’s interaction with the saleslady elaborates on the idea that the normal is between