Beauty Cult

I was happy to see J. Valenti explore the beauty issues that females deal with on a daily basis. In the chapter, “Beauty Cult,” she covers all the issues, from eating disorders to wearing shoes that destroy your feet, just to be accepted by someone else. Valenti says, “None of us want to be ugly; in fact, we all would really like to be beautiful-and it’s killing us. Literally.” I feel she is spot on with that comment. Being a non-traditional student and making the transition from the business environment to the college environment, I have to agree with her. In the business environment on a daily basis, I would see female co-workers shoved into tight shirts, which pushed their breasts up and out, just trying to catch the eye of a VP, hoping it would be their ticket up. I wondered how in the world that was comfortable. I know when I wear a tight shirt, I can barely breath or move and it’s definitely not comfortable. In my opinion, when women stop using their bodies as vessels for advancement and start earning their way up the business ladder, men will start looking at them in a different way.

Lesbians Need Not Apply…

I have to agree with Valenti, when she says, “In one of the cruelest moves ever, the anti-sex, anti-gay crowd is trying to keep anyone who isn’t straight or married from being parents.” Obviously some things have changed since she wrote the book. We know have a pop-culture figure, “Octo-Mom” who is an unmarried woman that had six children she couldn’t handle in the first place and then through fertility procedures, had 8 more. Really??? Give me a f-ing break. What in the hell was the doctor and her thinking? It’s hard for me to believe that she didn’t do it for the fame and money. Granted not all unmarried women out there are trying to have multiple children at one time, but they should be able to bear children if they want too. My only suggestion would be to do a financial check on those unmarried woman that are wanted to raise a child on their own. It does seem common in our society there is a plethora of unfit mothers that are popping out kids, like they were a Pix dispenser. When there are thousands of fit unmarried women and married couples that struggle to have kids and can’t afford fertility procedures. As far as homosexual couples go, they are just as capable to raise a good kid that a heterosexual couple is. If anything, being raised in a homosexual environment would open the eyes of the child to be more understanding and accepting of other people.