Tamir Mere Consent Analysis

Tamir believes Western women give mere consent because they compare themselves to other women who are the “ideal women” or have something that they lack. Some women find themselves wanting what they have found on the other women. For instance if she doesn’t have a busty chest she feels she needs to have bigger breast because someone has it and she’s getting noticed by guys. To other people in the world a busty chest, big butt, curves, hour glass figure, and full lips makes a person beautiful. Due to women feeling they lack in a certain area, they tend to think they are not beautiful so in order to achieve whatever they believe they lack they go to the extremes. They feel the need to make themselves look like the ideal woman that society has in the media. …show more content…
“True” consent is when you willingly agree to something while “mere” consent is when you don’t really have a say you do it because you kind of have to. Mere consent is more like obligated consent. Therefore when Tamir believes Western women give mere consent when going under painful medical procedures, extreme diets and other things to change their body due to them constantly feeling as if they are not beautiful because they don’t meet the society’s definition of beautiful. Western women change features on their body on mere consent they do it for the sole reason of believing they have to in order to be beautiful. Women tend to do these procedures without realizing what they are truly doing. To them it is normal because everyone else is doing it as well. What woman fail to realize is that these procedures are not for everyone. These procedures could potentially damage these women bodies or they could die. One woman had fled to Mexico to get butt implants done by a surgeon there. After the surgery the woman immediately died and she was not the first person to die from this