Gabriela Allen
November 2, 2014
Professor Young
ENGL 1100
Essay #3
Beauty as a positive or negative
Have you
ever wondered if the way a person looks determines how far they go or don’t go
in life? Most people believe that the
way you look plays a great role in how you do with your life. Beauty has its perks and then it doesn’t. It
can sometimes be considered as the devil, for sure. Sometimes it gets you
somewhere without trying or the other way around where you don’t get away with
anything and you have to work at whatever goal you are trying to achieve. Therefore, beauty is considered both negative
and positive. I do not believe it is
fair to base something off of someone’s beauty, whether it is positively or
negatively done.
Beauty is a
topic commonly discussed in our world because there is always something
happening with it. There are always
positive aspects towards it. If you show
yourself off and put yourself out there because you are beautiful, you will get
a job over another woman that may have ugly clothes compared to you or just
someone who is not naturally beautiful.
Not only will you get a job, you will also get out of tickets when you
get pulled over, as discussed in Cameron Russell’s Ted Talk. Imagine being at a bar when you are of legal
age. If you are that beautiful girl that
every guy has gone up to talk to, you will probably get a free drink out of it. That is their money wasted and you are not
the one now wasting away your money!
Having beauty has its perks, considered as these ones specifically.
As you have
seen, beauty has its positives. But,
unfortunately, there are many more negatives aside from the positives. In Cameron Russell’s Ted Talk she talks about
how beauty is seen as fake. She states
how when you are a model people expect you to be perfect. She shows the
audience pictures of herself all done up for he career and herself when she is
at home. There is a difference in how
she looks, but our world expects these models to be thin and look perfect at
all times, so that is definitely a big negative. More negatives also come out of being
beautiful. Sometimes beautiful people
know they are beautiful become cocky or some have more insecurities then you
expect. Beauty aspect of a woman makes
that woman run higher risks of getting sexually assaulted or harassed. If you are a gorgeous girl walking alone
somewhere or with someone who is not usually as pretty, you are automatically a
target. Even if you are under the influence
a man will the advantage of you or they will try to get you drunk.
I don’t
believe beauty is fair. I believe true
beauty should come from within and that is kind of how Aimee Mullen’s describes
beauty in her Ted Talk. She talks about
her disability and it shouldn’t determine your beauty. Cameron Russell talks about beauty in a
negative way while Aimee Mullen’s talks about it in a positive way. Both of them determines how beauty is
constructed. Mullen’s discusses how it
is perception while Russell believes beauty is fake.
Beauty in a positive and negative way are both unfair. It truly can be considered the devil. Some crimes happen because of beauty. For example, rape and molestation. No one really realizes the effects that
beauty has towards life events and the future of your life.
Beauty has
its positives and negatives, as discussed.
It is not fair to say that beauty controls some of your future endeavors
an how hard you may or may not have to work just to get somewhere in your life. With the positive effects of beauty, I do not
believe it is fir. Just because you are
beautiful does not mean that you are more able to get a job or get away with
paying ticket rather than someone who is not as attractive as you may be.
Negative effects of beauty is also unfair.
If you are attractive, you should not be set as a target towards sexual
assault. No one should have to go
through that mental and physical breakdown just because they are
beautiful.
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