Beauty Myth & Violence

Alysaad Hassan - 23890

 Introduction
 Purpose of the novel
 Women has been subjugated with pain through out history
 “Are you Beautiful?” Images are not real, manufactured.
 They are here to help you. (Business now a days make you feel as if something is
broken - )
 The unrealistic standard of beauty, ideal image of a women e.g. (Ayesha Takia,
Anushka Sharma)
 Play on your insecurities (Ad – Lose your weigh in 15 Days)
 The Walking Wounded & Health
 What is Violence : Manipulate the idea of sickness and health.
 Victorian medicine and today’s era.(Pad Man – Banned in Cinemas)
 Regulation of menstruation cycle and women’s fat. (Artificial Food)
 Maintaining reproduction and maintenance of beauty today. (Being Mother is
what complete a WOMAN as WOMAN)
 19th Century medical Coercion looks absurd vs Today.
 “Health is Beauty” or “Beauty is Health”.
 Victorian defined all reproductive activity as illness.
 INSTITUTIONALIZED RECLASSIFICATION
Myth’s double standards for the function of the body.
A man thigh vs. women.
Un precedently well but Myth denies them the experience of wellness.
(Real Life example – Wife)
Less satisfied than physically disabled people (1 in 4 women is SF Bay)
 Is Health “Healthful”
 Liquid fasts: 60 deaths in US <side effects: nausea, hair loss, dizziness,depression>
 Compulsive exercise: Sports anemia stunned growth
 Breast implants (lose sensory feeling)
 Myth is not just making physically ill but mentally ill
 Dieting & stress
 Society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside.
 Short term fixes (E.g: Sri Devi)
 The prime of life
 Women should live hungry, die young and leave beautiful corpse.
 Female fat can easily be called disease or it can be seen as what is: Normal
 PROFIT
$300 M every year with 10% growth rate
Wrapping female self- perception and multiplying female self-hatred.
Selling the feeling of terminal ugliness.
Cancer cannot create the disease it’s agony.
 ETHICS
 Promoted behavior that destroyed heath in order to profit from the damage.
 Cosmetic surgeons create a patient pool where none biologically exist.
 Laissez faire attitude is inconsistent for many reasons.
 Society & Moral Health
 Kill of the age in herself.
 Beauty myth exist outside civilization
 The fallacy that beauty is form of Darwinism.
 Healing doctors follow a strict code after Nuremberg trials.
 Cosmetic surgeons call healthy bodies sick in order to invade them.