The readings in this chapter focused on the theme of beauty and how this ever-changing idea of beauty is affecting women and men in society. These standards of beauty have never been one finite idea but yet it is detrimental to people’s esteem and in some cases, their health. The gender binary is trying to create a definition on what it means to be a man and what it means to be a women. We see two extremes of the gender binary. Beautiful women should have large breasts and a small waist and beautiful men should be tall and strong. For some people these “definitions” of beauty are unattainable. There are so many different types of bodies, why should there be one image that is correct. As if our bodies were something we can control. That’s when
