Assiggnment 2-Objectification Theory

Reading “The Beauty  Myth” reminded me again that the whole idea of  being beauty : you have to look to a certain way youngful ,thin ,without wrinkles  is completely wrong.I like the idea how the author Naomi Wolf describes the relationship between women and beauty relating it to examples, facts of our everyday life,so in a way we could understand better the main  porpuse of the article.

 In the first lecture was a sentence that made me rethought about it and I partially disagree it.”That is,women come to view and treat themselves as objects to be evaluated on the basis of their appereance-or to self-objectify.” I said partially because at some points I agree it.For example it is true that women’s body is treated as an object,not  by them,but by men.We also saw some amberrasing advertisements in the lecture of sexism where women were as some toys in the hand of men.Something that I don’t like is the way how the author think that women treat themselves as objects to be evaluated.According just to that part:women treat themselves as an object ,he means that she doesn’t love herself ,she doesn’t have feelings,thoughts or a reason to live.I disagree it because women are as much human beings as men and first of all they have respect for themselves. I think that a smart woman would never used her appereance to evaluate because she knows quite well that her beauty won’t last for long and what will happen  when her beauty get  lost that means that also her evaluation will end?

 After reading “The Beauty Myth” something that I didn’t like was the way how the author was expressed ,in  this sentence:Aging in women is “unbeautiful” since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be newly broken: Older women fear young ones, young women fear old. The idea about aging is “unbeautiful” is completely wrong.In this case it is like a division between the young girls with a fresh skin that can be determaind as beautiful and on the other hand there are the oldest one that can be called as “unbeautiful”.It doesn’t have sense.It is true that woman grow more powerful with time,because I think that are some lessons to learn that are just not available within the fullness of youth .Everyone has the stages of their life,as it is youth which is filled with its own important lessons and mistakes at the same time it is the againg stage that comes with wrinkles ,grey hair and as she said :more powerful with time,but this doesn’t mean that can be unbeautiful or that they fear each other and the links between them is broken.On the contrary the link between them is strong enough to understand each other,because the oldest once were young and the youngest women will be old.There is no escape.I believe that Mother Nature knows what she is doing.