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Sat May 25 10:31:53 SAST 2013

Beauty and women: iLIVE

Marius Coertze | 29 August, 2012 17:26
Picture supplied by one of our readers, Christo Smit, for his advice to women.

Women are the perpetrators of their own misfortune, regarding the stereotypes and emphasis on physical beauty.

They go to extreme lengths to qualify for beauty contests, spending years and hundreds of thousands of money to be more attractive, trying to attain the ultimate standard of what is regarded as ”beautiful”. They gratefully and eagerly pose in advertisements and girly-magazines for men, letting their bodies being show-pieced in the most intimate ways for everyone to oogle at.

Women are letting themselves, i.e. their bodies, be exploited in every way possible for status, money and fame. At the same time feminists are constantly complaining about inequality, and not being taken seriously, when their same sex sisters are constantly undermining the very values and equality they strive for.

Women could never be taken seriously and be treated as equals, as long as they put themselves up as sex objects. However, I have the suspicion that women don’t want it any other way.

They like to be admired for their physical beauty, their outward appearance, and to be fussed about by adoring and leering men. It is part of the nature of women to attract the opposite sex in any which way possible, is it not?

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