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The Importance of The Body After reviwing the article, “Beauty Is Defined, and Not By You” by Raina Kelly I advised agaisnt publication of th article in the UTA newspaper, The Shorthorn. Kelley believes that women should be valued and treated according to their intelligence and not by their physical appearance. Regardless of her educational background, the reason her article should not be published in The Shorthorn newspaper is because she is gender bias, uses an angry-type tone that includes profanity and writes in an informal way that does not go along with her speech of how high education gets you further than beauty does. Kelley argues that women do not have to be beautiful or “hot” in order to be successful. “According to the standard of beauty currently in place in our culture – namely white, young, thin with long, straight hair, I am not beautiful” (Kelley 1). She is a colored, “heavy” woman who does not have a slim body or a beautiful appearance, but she is confident of herself. “We are currently earning the majority of undergraduates (and many graduate) degrees, including medicine and law” (Kelley2). She states that a woman's brain, or educational knowledge, is more important than the way her body looks. The author tells us that she is a rounded black woman with curly hair. Is she implying that black women with curly hair cannot make the cover of a fashion or beauty magazine? It sure seems like it. Kelley seems to be angry towards those who think beautiful women should succeed over those who are ugly or overweight. I agree that this is a good argument, but she does not support it properly and allows her emotions to take a huge role in her diction, or word choice, as shown when she says “big” women should insult back whe... ... middle of paper ... ...not have an education can achieve. This is a good argument, but she only states it and does not support it with any evidence or examples. Through her article, Kelley uses strong language to communicate her feelings to the reader and it seems a little too personal. She gets carried away when explaining her arguments that she forgets to give good reasoning and jumps from one place to another. She is not consistent with her arguments and the profanity used in her article makes her seem less educated and does not match with the character she is trying to take. Therefore, I would not suggest the publication of this article in The Shorthorn because of all the cons Kelley overlooked. It will most likely not reach the attention of a large audience, to which many will disagree on her ideas and men will not have any part in this bias article, since it is only targeting women.

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