beautybias

WHO SAID SHOPPING IS ONLY FOR GIRLS?



Read to page 20 for the first week of book club!!!! Over Break please read up to  page 70  for book club!!!!!!!!! __**Dictionary: **__ __**Toe Cleavage**__: the partial exposure of a woman's toes in shoes that are cut low enough at the top. __Veneer__: an ornamental coating (like a facade) __Bias__: influence in an unfair way __Frumpy__: primly out of date __Aesthetic__: concerning or characterizing by an appreciation of beauty or good taste __Semi satirical__: partially exposing folly to ridicule __Prevail__: larger in number, quantity, power, status, or importance; predominate __Disparities__: inequality or difference in some respect <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__Countervailing__: Stressed counter-force targeting, greater flexibility <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__Litigation__: a legal proceeding in a court <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__Constituencies__: any cohesive body of people bound by shared identity, goals, or loyalty <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__Thinspiration:__ photographs or other material intended to provide inspiration to anorexia nervosa as a lifestyle choice.

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__**<span style="color: #b800ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Interesting Facts: **__ <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-Woman account for about 80 percent of all foot surgery, much of it related to high heels. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Four million women annually are victims of domestic violence <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Twenty million women live in poverty <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-90 percent of women consider their looks important to their self-image <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-Over 50 percent of young women reported that they would prefer to be hit by a truck than be fat <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- More than 67% of obese individuals are willing to risk death in order to lose just 10 percent on their weight, more than 75% would for 20% of their weight <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-Americans invest $40 billion annually on diets. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-Of the $18 billion consumers spend on cosmetics, only 7 percent pays for ingredients. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- The highest paid member of Sarah Palin's vice presidential campaign was her makeup 'arist' <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- The contemporary woman's movement in the 1960s started a big outburst of feminist activity <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- "Sexualized portrayals of prominent women--Hillary Clinton's cleavage, Sarah Palin's beehive, Michelle Obama's upper arms-- have under scored the double standard that channels attention to woman's appearance instead of their accomplishments." <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> - The global investment of appearance is over $200 billion per year <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-The annual global investment in grooming totals at least 115billion dollars. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">a. 38 billion on hair <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">b. 24 billion on skin hair <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">c. 20 billion on cosmetic surgary <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">d. 18 billion on comsetics <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">e. 15 billion on perfume <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Also available are 'thinspiration' supporting anorexics and bolemics who believe that they are making lifesyle choices rather than experiencing eating disorders. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-The cites post pictures of extremely thin celebrities, provide tips for weight loss, and uspport blogs for group discussion. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-For young girls, "miss bimbo' helps them create a virtual doll, keep it a 'waif thin' through diet pills, and upgrade its appeal through breast implants and face lifts. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Corsets came into style in 1400s and they mostly narrow the waist. The results were bent or fractured ribs, displacement of the liver, digestive disorders, and constriction of movement. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">- IN 1867, 3000 women burned alive and 20000 suffered severe injuries from flammable petty coats. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-In 19th century American Winters, women wore an average of 37 pounds of street clothes.

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<span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Because of society women spend obscene amounts of money altering their appearance, and some resulting in health issues. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> The better your look, the better you are treating; you get a better job. Too much discrimination based on appearance. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> The media objectifies women and makes them feel like their appearance is more important than their personality.

<span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> What accounts for this premium on appearance? <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Media <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Celebrities <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Stereotypes <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Past Generations <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Egotistical Men <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> What are the social consiquences of physical appearance? <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Pain <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Livelyhood <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Depression <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Eating Disorders <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Health Risks <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Successive Spending <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Relationship Trouble <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Are any of the disadvantages resulting from discrimination based on appearance unjust? If so, do they call for some legal remedy?

<span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> -Getting Job: no, because being biased based on appearance isn't exactly against the law. So that's why it's such a big problem. Because it isn't punishable if you don't hire someone because they're not as attractive. <span style="color: #b800ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Does it hurt more to be beautiful or not beautiful? <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Ashley S- not beautiful: because it could ruin yourself and your job <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Ashley z- beautiful: because you have to go trouble to make sure most people like what you are wearing <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Marilin-beautiful: because you are using all these products to make yourself pretty and they might put your health at risk <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Nikki- Not beautiful: because make rash decisions about you before you don't even know them <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> All- too much rash judgments about a person's personality based on what they are wearing.Mr. Morone- not beautiful: you don't people cowering in fear when ever they see you.

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