Essay On False Beauty

A Fake Beauty

There is an old saying that says beauty is pain. The French also say “Il faut souffrir pour etre belle”, which means no pain, no gain or you must suffer to be beautiful. However, many girls do not care about those old sayings. Many girls still do a lot of things to be more beautiful, even some extreme things. No matter how painful what they do to themselves, they still do it. The things that they do to be more beautiful are called beautification activities. Beautification activities have been done by many girls for centuries. Dworkin in Woman Hating (1974:115) says that many girls have suffered for beauty, for example, by “plucking the eyebrows, shaving under the arms, wearing a girdle, learning to walk in high-heeled shoes, having nose fixed, and straightening or curling hair.” Many girls go through extreme suffering from beautification activities to get a perfect impression from

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