Stereotypes Of Beauty

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In this society women had to face, a lot of discriminations, stereotypies, and critics based on beauty. Since many years ago, women had been denominated less than men. Men were seen as the boss of the house, who made all the decisions. On the contrary, women didn 't have any rights. Their role was keep the house clean, cook, and take care of the children. As time passed, women were able to get some rights, but no equality than men. In this society, are a lot of stereotypes. Many people, believe that women don 't have the same capacity than men. In the same way, women have been criticized and compared because of beauty. This society stables standards of beauty based on culture, and social class. With this in mind, women have been victims of society. In order to please it, most of them have forget their likes, and decided to put their life in danger though a lot of methods to change their bodies and be accepted in this society.
Nowadays, some people present women’s body as an object with form of art. I believe, that women are not an object, but …show more content…

Also, a woman who respects and abides by the decisions of her husband. According to (Kilbourne, 2016) in this society women should be “perfect.” However, perfection doesn 't exist, anyone is perfect. On the other hand, a man must be leader of the house,capable and strong. Is so important to look at the images of culture because based on it comes the definition of beauty. Every culture, women with different attributes could be denominated beautiful or no. According to (Scheel, 2014, pp 1) beauty varies on each every person, our culture shaped what we like, but people tend to changed. But, most importantly every individual have a different perception of the meaning of beauty. In other words, people grow up thinking in a specific way but it may changed. In every culture, there are different rules of beauty. Which means what is beautiful in one could not be in

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