tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223027726680052006.post6524435941368018631..comments2023-07-15T00:49:06.852-07:00Comments on asexy beast: The Beauty MythIlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795337226989102549noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223027726680052006.post-25037446209671497302009-11-20T22:08:14.253-08:002009-11-20T22:08:14.253-08:00I'm afraid that in the almost 20 years since t...I'm afraid that in the almost 20 years since the book was written, the issues Wolf describes are much worse. Eating disorders are on the rise and starting earlier. More and more young celebrities find that if the starve themselves they will always be in the news. Plastic surgery is becoming so common, and these modified bodies and faces are served up as examples everywhere we look.<br />Especially among the young women. The ones I talk to accept these warped views of what they should look like. Many women I know in their 20's already think they need a breast lift!<br />And I believe a woman is judged by how well she fits the "ideal" more now than ever.Susan Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589508071251558063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223027726680052006.post-35467968220859017182009-04-27T14:57:00.000-07:002009-04-27T14:57:00.000-07:00It's interesting you mention P&P the book,...It's interesting you mention P&P the book, because Wolf talks about Austen novels as examples of womens' literature trying to cope with the beauty myth. In books written by women from that time period, it was usually the not-as-pretty yet fiesty woman who won out. I wasn't familar with a lot of the books Wolf used as examples of this, but I do remember her mentioning Jo from Little Women, who sold her "one beauty", her hair, to help her family. Take that, beauty myth!Ilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12795337226989102549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223027726680052006.post-27472460541773700092009-04-27T12:20:00.000-07:002009-04-27T12:20:00.000-07:00Well . . . the line from Bridget Jones is a paraph...Well . . . the line from Bridget Jones is a paraphrase of Darcy's super-awkward proposal in <I>Pride and Prejudice</I>. So one might say that the idea has been around for a couple hundred years at least.Fellmamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08651050366058663737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223027726680052006.post-5301364329666169302009-04-26T18:13:00.000-07:002009-04-26T18:13:00.000-07:00hii..... i like this site.visit my blog, see the h...hii..... i like this site.visit my blog, see the hideouskristohttp://kristo86.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com