Our society today is so diverse, and there is the need for uttermost need for equality, tolerance, unity, and treat every member on change the society for the better. The article “A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?” by Susan Sontag leaves the readers with a lot of questions and points that makes them think if the society is fair or not. Through her work, she does a perfect work by making the readers question the points to realize how the society today is so unfair. The article compares the difference between men and women regarding how they are viewed, and the author goes ahead to use a variety of examples to show this existing differences. Women have the obligation of being beautiful according to Sontag. The look is the first sight
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Sontag is a great defender of women and says that their beauty does not define the capability of women. Men and women have been viewed differently in the society with men always seen as a whole and for their character while women, on the other hand, are viewed as half for their beauty. Therefore, women will judge others based on how they look while men do not because they will be viewed as unmanly to judge another man based on their looks. The author is very positive that this trend and viewpoint between men and women will change within this current century since women are becoming more and more important with time and it will not be long before the end of this patriarchy. There are women presidents and CEOs today since they have managed to enter into the public sphere where they have proven that they are ready and capable of doing the kind of jobs that were previously meant only for the men. The continuation of this trend will reach a point where women will not be judged by their beauty but by the talent; they have. Similarly, the article “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos” by Joan Morgan, on the other hand, is another inspirational article on discrimination and tagging within our society. Here, the author looks into the hip-hop songs and both their negative and positive effects. The hip-hop music, according to the author, was associated with the black-on-black love and crime; this is because most of the lyrics of the songs were based on the topics like alcoholism, substance abuse, and mostly
Sontag is a great defender of women and says that their beauty does not define the capability of women. Men and women have been viewed differently in the society with men always seen as a whole and for their character while women, on the other hand, are viewed as half for their beauty. Therefore, women will judge others based on how they look while men do not because they will be viewed as unmanly to judge another man based on their looks. The author is very positive that this trend and viewpoint between men and women will change within this current century since women are becoming more and more important with time and it will not be long before the end of this patriarchy. There are women presidents and CEOs today since they have managed to enter into the public sphere where they have proven that they are ready and capable of doing the kind of jobs that were previously meant only for the men. The continuation of this trend will reach a point where women will not be judged by their beauty but by the talent; they have. Similarly, the article “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos” by Joan Morgan, on the other hand, is another inspirational article on discrimination and tagging within our society. Here, the author looks into the hip-hop songs and both their negative and positive effects. The hip-hop music, according to the author, was associated with the black-on-black love and crime; this is because most of the lyrics of the songs were based on the topics like alcoholism, substance abuse, and mostly