Women's self-loathing is big business and supports a global capitalist system

[Sarah Ibarruri]

23. I agree with you Mineral Man. People want to look nice to the opposite sex. The problem is...

Everyone wants to look nice when trying to impress. Men and women, both.

However, when men and women dress up, women are generally depicted under-dressed, whereas men are depicted nicely dressed, but covered up. And as they grow up surrounded by these messages, when children grow up, males will continue to be covered up, while women will continue to expose their nude bodies.

The thing is this: women will have breasts whether they're exposed or covered, and women with a good shape will have a good shape whether they're wearing a dress that covers it or exposes it. Women can be VERY sexy and attractive without being half-nude.

The media, Hollywood, advertisements, magazines, books, etc., generally depict women under-dressed and exposed. There's absolutely no need to wear a hijab to look nice, but there's also no need to have the underwear peeking out from under a skirt that doesn't really even cover it.

There's also the fact that there's a rejection of women that don't fit the Hollywood stereotype of 'Hollywood female beauty.' I was discussing this with someone the other day. The Barbara Walters of the world are no longer acceptable even in the evening news. Now it must be women with the look of Hollywood star wannabes, and/or women who have undergone 'the knife.' Some female anchors even have cleavage. I used to watch the news from France (France 24???). Anyway, the anchors there look like ordinary women, some are in their 50s, and don't expose parts of their bodies.

Of course, since we're surrounded by all this here, it's hard to notice it. We've all grown accustomed to surgically-altered, exposed women, and have come to think of it as the norm. The problem is that little girls are growing up with this surrounding them. It's a very bad aspect of unbridled capitalism, that unless we make a point of noticing, will sit in our brains as the norm.