Summary of Naomi Wolf “The Beauty Myth” When reading Naomi Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” she talks about how the beauty myth is growing how it is affecting women and making it hard for them to be themselves. Because of the myth women think they need to be perfect to match the social standards, but no one is very going to be perfect. That is then causing eating disorders and cosmetic surgeries to raise and they are becoming the fastest growing medical specialty because women are under pressure to be perfect and are always competing to be on top. Women have worked for decades to get the rights that they have today. Naomi Wolf explains “Western women gained legal and reproductive rights, pursued higher education, entered the trades and the professions, and overturned ancient and revered beliefs about social role”. But do women really feel free? Women from the First World were the first to enjoy freedoms unavailable to any other woman, but did they still feel free? The beauty myth made girls think they were not pretty and it put so much pressure on them, so they hated themselves and their confidence level went down. The beauty myth is expanding and taking over social control. …show more content…
Women are being looked at by how sexy they are and not by their real beauty. “Women are stuck in a dark vein” says Naomi. Veins of self hatred, physical obsessions, terror of aging, and the dread of lost control. Thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds then to achieve any other goal (Wolf). We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that it’s using images of female beauty as a weapon against women's advancements. Women would rather change the way they look so they can match the social standards then to achieve any other