Voices of Pen

Feminism Flash

There are many points of view about beauty standard. Mostly, long hair, straight hair, big breasts, blonde hair, slim body, smooth skin, larger eyes, and smaller chin and nose are considered as the beauty standard. These kinds of paradigm mostly spread from people who are living in pop culture lifestyle especially in Europe and America (but now, it already spread in Asia too). Because of feminism, women now in charge to race to have body based on ‘standard’. Women are not shy to show how slim they are. Wearing a very small T-shirt that can show how slim they are and wearing sexy short pants are now being popular for women. They think that everyone has to know how perfect their body, how beautiful they are. It’s like the most beautiful woman, Cleopatra, did.

In Europe and America, beautiful standard has been issued in childhood. Everyone knows who Barbie is. She is a beautiful girl who has a long blonde straight hair, slim body, and tall. However, it is a dogma that has been given in most girls/women’s childhood. They will apply them to their self as soon as possible. Incidentally, some of them made up their look like a woman when they’re child.

Every woman wants to be beautiful. Some say beautiful is health. Modern women often want to be adult as soon as they want because, they want to have a nice body, big breasts, and also, fertile. In contrary, when they are already adult, they do not want to be older. Thus, they think being old will lose their beauty. They will lose their skin’s elasticity, and in a condition, they will do everything to get their beauty (plastics, botox, etc.).
Many doctors and scientists are now in charge to release the women from beauty cage. They join with psychologist to give suggestions about women’s sex appeal. They try to tell that beauty is not just coming from what can be looked, but, it is coming from another thing.

Febrian Eka Aditya
English Literature '06