Western Beauty Standards Of Western Women

Tamir states that Western women don’t “truly” consent to altering their bodies in the ways that are required by Western beauty standards. Consent is defined in the dictionary as “permission for something to happen or agreement to do something”. A beauty standard for Western women include women performing a clitoridectomy. Tamir believe that Western women don’t “truly” consent because she believes that women don’t truly want to go under all this procedures, but because of the pressure of the standards of Western beauty she goes ahead with what is “expected” that she does. . Although Western women might morally believe this is wrong, or it is something that they are afraid to do or don’t want done to their bodies, they still go ahead and continue

Although many women say that they go thru this procedures because it’s something that they truly want for themselves, there has to be some kind of background on why a women wants to change a certain part of their body. Like in my previous example, breast. Women aren’t just born hating their breast, it isn’t until they start associating with society, reading into the beauty standards, or someone put them down about a certain aspect of themselves that they start creating an image of what they believe that they should look like, leading them to this altering procedures for their

It only leads them to another types of level of sexism as Cudd and Jones refer to it as “Institutional sexism”. When a women wants to get a job, the standards for them are set pretty high. For example if a women wants to get a job as model, then they must be a size 0 in order to achieve that type of job. As simple as if a women wants a job at hooters, then they have to meet a certain criteria of what a “hooters waitress” looks like. For a while the restraunt would even base their final decision on the appreance of the women applying for Hooters. It is unfair that a women is judged on their appearance and not on their performance. Although sexism doesn’t seem like it it’s going on anymore, it really is. Women are pressured by society to learn and act a certain way, and even if they don’t really want to they do it anyways because they would rather “fit in”, than being a