<<If she wants to wear ugly grey wool stockings and a shapeless sweater then who's to
criticize, and if Pam Anderson wants to enlarge her breasts to a 40 EEE, should we
care? Aren't these choices we as women have about ourselves?>>
Well, yes, Penni, of course women should have choices. But I wonder if we really have given ourselves as many new choices as we thought with feminism. I think it is easy to see the past in very polarized, black and white terms, for example. Really, many women were independent in past cultures, and in our own as well. And yet we are encouraged by feminist ideologues to see the present as full of freedoms, and the past as a prison.
As far as Pamela Anderson goes, I personally think that cosmetic surgery is barbaric. I think it is potent symbol of bizarre expectations for women that we are perceived as being more successful if we have breasts implanted. My daughter's girlfriend is aneorexic, and may die. She was a pretty, popular, happy and smart child who was afraid that she was not thin enough, although she was absolutely normal. I think that starving to death and slicing up the body are really very sad comments on where women are today. But yes, of course we should be free to be many different kinds of women. Unfortunately, the only "type" which is in vogue, however, looks like Barbie. |
