American+Beauty.+Can+We+Keep+Up?



Housewife then.

Knock out now.

The Role of Women : Can We

Keep Up?

__Housewife:__

Some women marry houses.  It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements. The walls are permanent and pink. See how she sits on her knees all day, faithfully washing herself down. Men enter by force, drawn back like Jonah into their fleshy mothers. A woman **is** her mother

That's the main thing.

~Anne Sexton~ Women were expected to be perfect. There households had to be

perfectly organized. They were supose to have perfect family meals.

They were never supose to be upset and they were always supose to

look and be happy for the rest of the family.




 * Now women think that they have to be beautiful to feel good. Women go through hours of tourture in order to maintain the staus of maginzines and popular culture. Our idea of beauty is distored because we feel we have to spend hours gettingourselves fixed and repolished. Today, tThere is no such thing as natural beauty in America.**

media type="youtube" key="knEIM16NuPg&hl=en" height="355" width="425" Look how much really goes into making someone look good. Don't feel bad, the woman you see on the billboards:

they are not who you think they are!



Those eyes that held the pictures, and knew sights- if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different…Maybe they’d say, “Why look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We mustn’t do bad things in front of those pretty eyes. -Tony Morrison, The Bluest Eye-  **Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike." (The Bluest Eye, p. 45) **  

 "I can't go to school no more. And I though maybe you could help me." "Help you how? Tell me. Don't be frightened" "My eyes." "What about your eyes?" "I want them blue." Tony Morrison, The Bluest Eye 

Are we forced to conform?

Conform, Conform, Conform

A thought ? Good God quick hide it, don't let the neighbours hear, This terrible thing being different fills us all with fear! Conform ! Conform ! Conform ! Don't let it once appear We're not the same as them, it's usually us that gets to jeer...

I think within the limits that the greater group has made, Its values are inflexible and I'm everso afraid Of challenging the status quo by stepping out of line (As long as I'm inside the group then everything's just fine).

- But what the hell I'll try it, I'll give it one more go, Thinking differently is difficult, and I'm a trifle slow To pick up on the concept of being first of all myself - My education's told me that it's harmful for my health.

But as I do this hold my hand, it's terrible for me, I have this awful fear of being excluded socially: My life is based on groups and belonging to a team, My early years were spend just practicing this theme:

I've run around for bells at school, sat up when I'm told, Written down pure rubbish in case it's useful when I'm old: Shut down imagination, learnt uncreatively, Swallowed one long syllabus of dead conformity... -Richard Macwilliam-



[|Annorexia and the Media]

"I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool... You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow... And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, //The Great Gatsby//, Ch. 1

media type="youtube" key="uEP7uti0PDw&hl=en" height="355" width="425"media type="youtube" key="lj3iNxZ8Dww&hl=en" height="355" width="425"  Are women just dumb with a pretty face?

The hope and future for women:

"There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. " (Hiliary Clinton) We Can Do It

American Beauty can we keep up reflection

Minority Injustice