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Beauty Myth

Beauty is defined by the qualities in a person or thing that give pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalt the mind or spirit. The second definition is a beautiful person or thing, especially a beautiful woman. (Webster 1992: 396)

The myth in the second sense carries out many problems for human beings, especially woman, since ¡°beauty¡± is the field, or an element that involve mainly around them. In other words, if one is considered beautiful, the beauty works as empowerment, acceptance, respect, humanization, and relaxation. The quotation marks around beauty explain this myth. The notion of beauty is unstable, that is, no one really can define what beauty is. Also it is different because the beauty is in the eye of a culture. However, it is argued that mass media is providing an idealized standard of human appearance for the popular culture that is impossible for most of humans to attain and th


1. To reinforce the idea, media repeats the standard, like a prayer.

Naomi Wolff, the main thinker of beauty myth states that ¡°the wishful notion that with enough time, money, effort, and will power, any woman can and should attempt to look like an extremely tall, young, slender-yet-bosomy, Nordic blonde model of a certain facial bone structure more or less summarizes the prevailing beauty myth.¡±

Vanessa Beecroft, an artist who exhibits real naked women as the form of art, states that beauty is not a form, so we cannot touch it. I cannot explain a beautiful woman of why she is beautiful. Beauty is something like a conception. (Beecroft 1999: 176)

The beauty myth is brainwashing, a warped and destructive notion in a universe of such amazing diversity. Either every human being is perfect, or no one is, because no two of us on the planet are exactly alike, including identical twins. Each of us

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