BEAUTY

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison." - Mary Wollstonecraft

Oi, man/reader. I ask you, what is it that makes women beautiful?

Famous friend and fellow feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft highlights that women since childhood have imprisoned themselves into stereotypes that are highlighed in the female gender. In this case, Wollstonecraft has chosen beauty. Since I am the only one still alive out of me and my bud Mary I shall now show you the difference between beauty as gender and beauty as sex.

Now feast your eyes on Exihibit A: Beauty As Gender

Penelope Cruz. She's got tits, a flawless figure, her hair is all floaty, shiny and long just waiting for a man to run his fingers through it, pouty lips and her body is absent of any remaining hair (legs shaven and pubic hair all under control and she possibly may have her nipples waxed, actually if you've seen Vanilla Sky then yes nipples are hairless!) Her body, the majority of men (excluding men that like fat women) would say is sexy, gorgeous and beautiful.

So now i say to you, hey man? Is gender really everything, what of the natural, untouched beauty of the female sex. Look towards Exihibit B and ask yourselves why is the beauty of the female sex no longer ever an option for women today.

Exhibit B: Myself As The Female Sex

Myself, Lenny. I don't know about you but it is quite freakin obvious that i am the opposite of Penelope Cruz and if not your pretty mother fucking retarded. As you can see, it's not exactly what the men out there would find beautiful. But atleast I can say this that it is all mother fucking all natur-aaallll. I'm overweight, hairy and sweaty but I am woman. As a girl growing into a young woman I haven't changed anything in order to fufill the requirements of what is considered beauty today. Thus remaining as a beauty of sex and not gender.

Now I ask you, man/reader. Is the beauty of today what really defines us as women? Or are we just imprisoned in this male-constructed ideal of what beauty is to them and not ourselves. Why should we have to adhere to the ideals and assumptions of gender? Why can't we just be woman as mother nature intended us to be?