Woman's Visual Appearance Should Not Matter Person Analysis

In today’s society people think it is their place to tell others—especially girls—how to dress. When girls are raped at colleges, or just even in the

Men do have different ways to respond to different situations than women, and it is

The outfit we may choose to wear causes certainly, absolutely no harm to others surrounding us. Thus, what may be the point? Why must they enforce it? Therefore, now is our time, as students of Westlake High School, to stand up for what we believe in and declare we be given the right to wear whatever we may please. Under certain circumstance of course, nothing outrageous, or whore-like. And as for males of our society, no pants must expose thou of thy nature below the waist.

“We all know that appearance matters, but the price of prejudice can be steeper than we often assume” (Washington1.) Published originally in the Washington Post on May 23,2010 by Deborah L. Rhode. Rhode the Professor of law and legal director at Stanford University in her essay “Why Looks Are The Last Bastion Of Discrimination,” argues that an individual's physical appearance is one of the few qualities of their personal identity that other people are legally within their rights to discriminate against. Rhode states her thesis clearly explaining the forthcoming reasons she will offer to uphold her position. Rhode believes that discriminating against individuals based on their appearance is wrong, and is often overlooked in many environments such as the workforce. Many think it is crucial that discrimination on looks is banned in workplaces, schools, and most other organizations.

It is the beginning of August, the dreadful days in school have finally arrived. Since it is still ninety degrees outside and the AC can not keep up, most boys walk through the halls with shorts and cut-off tank tops. Girls, we wear long pants such as, jeans or leggings, “Why?”, you ask, Why would one ever want to wear that? Unfortunately, It is not a choice for us. Girls face the question when deciding to wear shorts, “Are these long enough, am I going to get in trouble?” Despite the warm temperatures outside and inside girls can not wear what they want, because it shows too much of their bodies. Boys? Can wear their cut-offs showing more than girls. Do they get in trouble for showing too much? The answer, usually is no. .To this day women are not equal to men in, school, the workplace, or at home. In this article, Rowena uses ethos, a very limited amount of logos, and no pathos to make an argument about the sexism towards school dress codes and how it promotes rape culture.

In a 1991 court case, a woman accused a man by the name of William Kennedy Smith of raping her. When being questioned about the incident, Smith stated that she was wearing underwear from Victoria’s Secret. The case was then acquitted. Smith made this point because the Victoria’s Secret brand promises that if women wear their lingerie then they are irresistible. This goes to show that men just see women for what they wear and can say that the woman was asking for it. In another court case in 1990 a male Canadian judge accused a three year old girl of being sexually aggressive and set her molester free and back to his job as a babysitter (503-04) This further proves the point that women, even little girls, are the ones held responsible for the actions people do to

In the article, “High school Dress Code Letter Advises Girls To Cover Their ‘Sausage Rolls’” written by Taylor Pittman expresses how degrading and derogatory our society can be. Brianna Burtop, graduating senior at Biglerville High school, received a letter before graduation stating the dress code for their big day, along with her other classmates. Brianna was furious about the statements used in the letter, for example, wearing clothes that “keeps ‘the girls’ covered and supported.” Not only was Brianna upset by the snide remarks made in the letter, she was particularly offended by the comment, “we don’t want to be looking at ‘sausage rolls’” and “you can’t put 10 pounds of mud in a five-pound sack.”

As I was reading The Beauty Bias, by Deborah L. Rhodes, I came across a statistic that perplexed me, saying the total “annual global investment in grooming” comes to $115 billion (Rhodes, pg. 32). This shocking fact provokes a worrisome question: Why do we, humans, spend so much time, money, and thought on our appearance? As a complex question, there are several equally complex answers. However, the simple answer is that everyone else invests their time and thought into your outer shell, eliciting effort from you to improve what they study - your external image. The concern placed on one’s fashion choice or natural features by society takes away from larger, more pressing issues such as the declining economy, or feeding third-world countries.

To follow up why women’s clothing has nothing to do with assault and other negative activity, a federal commission on crime of violence study found that 4.4 percent of all reported rape involved proactive behavior on the part of their victim. Now, what’s interesting about this fact is that most of these convicted rapists could not remember what their victims were wearing. So, wearing layered clothes and covering every inch in a women’s body doesn’t reduce their cases of catcalling, harassment, or rape? Well sadly no, women who tend to dress like this are more likely to be raped. Researchers at the University of North Dakota showed that one in three college

My second argument is victim blaming. We can't blame girls for distracting guys when they are wearing hot pant. We need to make the male species understand that the female body or females un general are not a sex object. I mean, why is it always about girls showing too much skin?! But if guys do, nobody cares. This is so damn discriminating.

Zerlina’s hashtag prompted mass amounts of stories and insightful posts I believe perfectly exemplify the appearance of rape culture. #RapeCultureIsWhen women who come forward are questioned about what they were wearing. This statement is entirely sexist, and unfortunately it happens. Women are taught to cover up before going out to protect themselves. Protect them from what? This only teaches women to cover up to prevent themselves from becoming victims of sexual assault. Not only is it inappropriate to make women feel they should dress more conservatively, it is even more inappropriate to encourage women to present themselves as objects.

In this chapter, I am going to analyze the way Spy constructs female attractiveness and non-attractiveness and also the impact of it. As a film that has a woman as the main character and mostly supporting character, Spy displays things that can shape our views about attractiveness. Susan, Nancy, Karen, and Rayna will be the main focus on my analysis. This chapter is divided into two subchapters. In the first subchapter, I will discuss the way female’s physical attributes define what is attractive and what is not and the impact of it. In the second subchapter, I will discuss the characteristics of female characters that show attractiveness and non-attractiveness and the impact of

It 's not a mystery that society 's ideals of beauty have a drastic and frightening effect on women. Popular culture frequently tells society, what is supposed to recognize and accept as beauty, and even though beauty is a concept that differs on all cultures and modifies over time, society continues to set great importance on what beautiful means and the significance of achieving it; consequently, most women aspire to achieve beauty, occasionally without measuring the consequences on their emotional or physical being. Unrealistic beauty standards are causing tremendous damage to society, a growing crisis where popular culture conveys the message that external beauty is the most significant characteristic women can have. The approval of prototypes where women are presented as a beautiful object or the winner of a beauty contest by evaluating mostly their physical attractiveness creates a faulty society, causing numerous negative effects; however, some of the most apparent consequences young and adult women encounter by beauty standards, can manifest as body dissatisfaction, eating disorders that put women’s life in danger, professional disadvantage, and economic difficulty.

The fact is that any person has the right to dress or speak or anything else in whatever way they want. This is supposed to be a free country. No human being deserves to be treated as if the way they choose to express themselves is a crime.

throughout history. For example, it is a common belief that John F. Kennedy’s more favorable looks were a contributing factor in his 1960 presidential win against Richard Nixon. To a lot of people, it may appear that beautiful people have an unfair advantage in life. As a result of this belief, a world where becoming beautiful is a rite of passage for all people seems to have an almost utopia-like quality, but that is not the case in the dystopian novel Specials by Scott Westerfeld. This book is an excellent reading choice to open the eyes of people who are under the false impression that physical attractiveness makes a person superior, and for those who