An Inconvenient Truth

It's sad but true.

We live in a world that objectifies women because of their outward beauty.

Anyone that knows me knows that I am a car nut, I love all cars from the classic American muscle to the Japanese tuner "rice rockets" (Ford Pinto excepted, ask your parents why). What makes me absolutely disgusted is that I pick up a car magazine after looking at the front page article about tuning your ECU (just bear with me here) and finding out that half of the magazine consists of girls wearing next-to-nothing bending over cars that I'll never be able to afford.

Totally revolting.

Apparently it's been like this for a long time. In The Rape of The Lock, we have Belinda, adored and loved by all, including one "The Baron" who happens to cut off a piece of her hair (I know, total creeper, right?). This enrages Belinda so much that she loses her inward beauty (or whatever pretense thereof) by concentrating over such a frivolous thing.

Now, upon reading this, my initial reaction was "How ridiculous, they are fighting over a piece of hair." Then, I began to realize, "Is that so far from our own culture? Have we become so focused on outward beauty that we would fight over frivolity?" Dr. Mitchell brought up a good point in class that more wars have been fought over sugar than any other commodity in the world...

Sugar...

(Now if it was oil, I could understand. My parents voted for Bush.)

Humanity has not come a long way in the past 300 years. We still put things like outward beauty on a pedestal far above everything else, while inward beauty gets shoved in a corner with all the motivational speakers.

You'll have to forgive my ranting. I've got Linkin Park qeued on my computer. Coldplay is up next, maybe I'll cool off.

~Cody Martin

Commented on Joy Vigneulle