Rough Draft – Persuasive Essay [Title]
It has been common today to see women becoming increasingly unclothed and showing off their bodies while their message is overstated and conspicuous. Many women seem to assume that by getting implants and donning shirts embellished with the Playboy bunny or Porn Star, they are more empowered and thus walking symbols of women’s liberation. This message, as pointed out by Ariel Levy in her article “Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture”, gives the impression among women that this new raunch culture doesn’t mean that the advocacy of women’s rights has disappeared. Instead, this is ongoing proof that feminism is at its peak, where women are now empowered more than ever to show that they are also humans with …show more content…
Both are based around heavily eroticized images of women with perfect bodies and skin. These images set standards for how women should be and act. Acne, dark circles, stretch marks, and scars need to be hidden or caked with makeup. Methods of reaching the “perfect” body and image include using waist trainers, having lip fillers, Botox, and breast implants, just to name a few. Humans, of course, are not perfect. Therefore, photo editing programs such as Photoshop are used to achieve the perfect and unnatural look that women around the world ironically desire to look like, even though the perfect image standards are unrealistic. These impractical rules and comparisons push women to be the ideal image and feel more controlled and restricted on how they should look or act. Consequently, women then want to not be the stereotypes and rebel against being how they should by dressing revealingly and flaunting their sexuality more. Women throughout history have been told to dress modestly, be the submissive one of the relationship, be the caretaker of the household, and to not sleep around or else she would risk humiliation and shame from a pre-marital pregnancy. Women want to show men that they are not just automatically the caretakers and submissive gender. The motives behind the rebellious actions may be deemed feminism, since they show that women can dominate and rule as well, but the actions themselves go alongside what men are doing. In a sense, women are ironically copying and imitating what men do, which is the very thing that makes them feel oppressed and limitless, in order to in return show they have
It has been common today to see women becoming increasingly unclothed and showing off their bodies while their message is overstated and conspicuous. Many women seem to assume that by getting implants and donning shirts embellished with the Playboy bunny or Porn Star, they are more empowered and thus walking symbols of women’s liberation. This message, as pointed out by Ariel Levy in her article “Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture”, gives the impression among women that this new raunch culture doesn’t mean that the advocacy of women’s rights has disappeared. Instead, this is ongoing proof that feminism is at its peak, where women are now empowered more than ever to show that they are also humans with …show more content…
Both are based around heavily eroticized images of women with perfect bodies and skin. These images set standards for how women should be and act. Acne, dark circles, stretch marks, and scars need to be hidden or caked with makeup. Methods of reaching the “perfect” body and image include using waist trainers, having lip fillers, Botox, and breast implants, just to name a few. Humans, of course, are not perfect. Therefore, photo editing programs such as Photoshop are used to achieve the perfect and unnatural look that women around the world ironically desire to look like, even though the perfect image standards are unrealistic. These impractical rules and comparisons push women to be the ideal image and feel more controlled and restricted on how they should look or act. Consequently, women then want to not be the stereotypes and rebel against being how they should by dressing revealingly and flaunting their sexuality more. Women throughout history have been told to dress modestly, be the submissive one of the relationship, be the caretaker of the household, and to not sleep around or else she would risk humiliation and shame from a pre-marital pregnancy. Women want to show men that they are not just automatically the caretakers and submissive gender. The motives behind the rebellious actions may be deemed feminism, since they show that women can dominate and rule as well, but the actions themselves go alongside what men are doing. In a sense, women are ironically copying and imitating what men do, which is the very thing that makes them feel oppressed and limitless, in order to in return show they have