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\u201cWe never say that all men deserve to feel beautiful. We never say that each man is beautiful in his own way. We don\u2019t have huge campaigns aimed at young boys trying to convince them that they\u2019re attractive, probably because we very rarely correlate a man\u2019s worth with his appearance. The problem is that a woman\u2019s value in this world is still very much attached to her appearance, and telling her that she should or deserves to feel beautiful does more to promote that than negate it. Telling women that they \u201cdeserve\u201d to feel pretty plays right in to the idea that prettiness should be important to them. And having books and movies aimed at young women where every female protagonist turns out to be beautiful (whereas many of the antagonists are described in much less flattering terms) reinforces the message that beauty has some kind of morality attached to it, and that all heroines are somehow pretty.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014”You Don\u2019t Have To Be Pretty: On YA Fiction And Beauty As A Priority<\/a>“<\/em><\/p>\n

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(via The Belle Jar<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe never say that all men deserve to feel beautiful. We never say that each man is beautiful in his own way. We don\u2019t have huge campaigns aimed at young boys trying to convince them that they\u2019re attractive, probably because we very rarely correlate a man\u2019s worth with his appearance. The problem is that a woman\u2019s value in this world is still very much attached to her appearance, and telling her that she should or deserves to feel beautiful does more to promote that than negate it. Telling women that they \u201cdeserve\u201d to feel pretty plays right in to the idea that prettiness should be important to them. And having books and movies aimed at young women where every female protagonist turns out to be beautiful (whereas many of the antagonists are described in much less flattering terms) reinforces the message that beauty has some kind of morality attached to it, and that all heroines are somehow pretty.\u201d \u2014”You Don\u2019t Have To Be Pretty: On YA Fiction And Beauty As A Priority“ . \u00a0 . \u00a0 . 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