all of these statements are false. Author Tracey Owens Patton states in her article Hey Girl, Am I More than my Hair?: African American Women and their Struggles with beauty, body image and hair, “the continuance of the hegemonically defined standard of beauty is not only reify white European standard of beauty in the united states, but also that the marginalization of certain types of beauty deviate from the “norm” are devastating to all women” (Patton 1) In other words, Patton argues, the dominate definition of “normal” that the white Europeans say beautiful is, is not only changing the united states, but it is influencing people that the certain type of women is beautiful, and this is hurting more women than ever
all of these statements are false. Author Tracey Owens Patton states in her article Hey Girl, Am I More than my Hair?: African American Women and their Struggles with beauty, body image and hair, “the continuance of the hegemonically defined standard of beauty is not only reify white European standard of beauty in the united states, but also that the marginalization of certain types of beauty deviate from the “norm” are devastating to all women” (Patton 1) In other words, Patton argues, the dominate definition of “normal” that the white Europeans say beautiful is, is not only changing the united states, but it is influencing people that the certain type of women is beautiful, and this is hurting more women than ever