Be Pretty But Not Too Pretty Summary

Catherine Rampell, a respected journalist for The Washington Post, wrote an article titled, “Be Pretty, But Not Too Pretty: Why Women Can’t Just Win.” This article talks about how women in the work place are ridiculed for how they look and how they act in corporate and political America. Women are struck with different stereotypes in the work place on a daily basis. Rampell gives examples of real life experiences with people in politics such as Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin; both of them have been mocked for how they express their feelings too much or if they do not express much at all. Rampell also talks about an experience that she had where a man came up to her and told her she was “pretty, but not too beautiful” (Rampell, 6). Rampell expresses …show more content…
Rampell also mentions how an executive was “tweet-shaming” when he posted a picture and hash tagged it “#brainsnotrequired.” The article written by Rampell is intended for women of all careers and backgrounds. Rampell wrote this article to express her opinion about how women are mocked in the work place no matter what they do or what their ranking is at a job. Rampell claims that women are being ridiculed in the work place for being “too aggressive” or “too quie.” Rampell’s opinions are based on facts however, her statements would be more convincing if she included more interviews with women who have been stereotyped in the workplace themselves. In her article, Rampell begins by talking about how women can never win in political or corporate America. If you are aggressive, you are bossy or pushy, but if you keep quiet then you are perceived as weak. Rampell uses three claims in her article. The first claim is that men caused this double standard to happen; if men did not stereotype women then society would not have this issue. The second claim that I noticed in Rampell’s article, is our future course