What is True Beauty?
There is a wide range of notions regarding the definition of True Beauty as it specifically relates to women, and where its greatest value exists, inner verses outer beauty. This essay will discuss, first the ideology of beauty, second, the concept of true beauty as defined by a celebrity, and thirdly, true beauty as I envision it and where I believe true beauty resides.
According to Efrat Tseelon the concept of beauty is a gender related category. In the book “Recent Trends in theoretical psychology, The Ideology of Beauty”, Tseelon states “In a society where sexual difference forms part of its dominant ideology, men and women are bound to occupy different positions on the attractiveness dimension. Looks may be important to a man but they are consequential for the woman: both in terms of how others value her and how she values herself. The beauty ideology forces the woman into a paradoxical existence, without making the paradoxes
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I have asked this question, because as a woman, I am not totally convinced that inner beauty alone is a clear enough and convincing definition of what true beauty really is, and in some cases can be just as overrated as outer beauty. I am not at all totally convinced, for the mere fact that two things can be true and exist at the same time. So the pressure in this particular case to pick a side of inner verses outer, to be beautiful or to embody true beauty is relatively absurd to me. Just as outer beauty can be unachievable, inner beauty can be grossly inadequate of a measurement of true beauty, because humans no matter the purity of heart, could and will be extremely selective and bias as to whom we exhibit and extend those positive and beautiful attributes of our moral compass