Beauty and Glee and Screwed Up PopPsychology

[annievh]

Last night, Glee aired Born This Way, one of the best (if not the best) episode the show's made so far. Interestingly, right before watching it, I went on one of my favorite blogs, The Pervocacry, and read an interesting take on a truly horible article about beauty. Said article was posted on Psychology Today, and claimed to tell the truth about

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[sometimescrazy]

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To understand what it takes to be beautiful, we need to be very clear about what being beautiful means-being sexually appealing to men. And then, instead of snarling that male sexuality is evil, we need to accept that it's just different-far more visually-driven than female sexuality. To focus our efforts, we can turn to an increasing number of studies by evolutionary psychologists on what most men seem to want. For example, the University of Texas' Devendra Singh discovered that men, across cultures, are drawn to a woman with an hourglass figure. Men like to see a wom an's waist-even on the larger ladies-so burn those muumuus, which only reveal your girlish figure in a Category 5 hurricane, and if you don't have much of a waist, do your best to give yourself one with the cut of your clothes or a belt.

It feeds the double standarts for men and women and it just tells us to try very hard to be different from who we are. To please men. If you want to read the awesome Pervocracy article you can go here. It is so very worth it.

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[annievh]

Sure, if you get yourself all glammed up you'll attract more men, but they're not likely to be the ones you necessarily want to attract unless you're just looking for a hook-up.

Word!