Feminine Beauty As A Social Construct

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The human body is one of the most complex and yet beautiful things on the earth. We live in a time where our perception of the way we view the body is driven my social stereotypes. In todays world we are supposed to live by the standards of this unwritten code. All of this affects the quality of life we live in. It ranges from the workplace; our personal relationships to the way strangers perceive a person. At this very day in age we are categorized due to being born male or female and things that should be talked about are considered taboo to others. Male and female, two separate genders that the world sees. One sex gets all the privileges and the other is suppressed. From birth we are thought that many things in life are geared towards …show more content…

The way a women sees herself is that of a construct of men. A woman sees herself as a woman because society placed that title. The idea that is primarily generated by males, that a woman must look or act a certain way. In a short video by BBC titled, Feminine Beauty: A social construct? It highlights Simone de Beauvoir that others peoples expectations are what make a women, feminine. Beauvaoir states that “women are expected to strive for beauty,” this causes women to be seen as submissive and makes them seem less than capable of being near men’s standards. This falls into the image of a women and how she must because of history of them being passive. Society sets the rules that all females should be ready for the “male gaze” as mention in the video. They have to meet the expectations of being beautiful all the time and must have a certain figure to say the …show more content…

The dominant assumptions of the cycles that are present in both sexes, are that as followed, men are to be strong showing no emotion, and women are to be weak and over emotional. This is why such an occurrence is not widely talked about between men. The stigma that follows women is such a horrible thing. It seems that society put out research more on women than men in regards to the “cycle.” It makes it easier for the world to blame things on a women when you can say its because she is on her period. This keeps oppression on women and only makes them become more

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