Thursday, October 18, 2012
Critique 2.0
It is still beauty before brains
It is debate about beauty more important than brain(knowledge) and vice versa since many many years ago. We still haven come to a conclusion that whether which one is more important. The columnist of News Straits Times, Chok Suat Ling take the stance to support that women should be judged based on their brain and not beauty.
However we can see that in the article, the columnist did not actually mention about the solution of this issues which is extremely important if she want to change the present perception towards the judgement of beauty of female.
She did not mention at all who is the cause of this perception either is the male who judge the women wrongly or is the woman the one who judge themselves. But she is actually blaming the beauty competition and not blaming why is there a beauty competition at the first place.
She did not give any reason too why a women should be judged by their knowledge and not beauty which is also an asset to them which they have the right to chose to judge on themselves.
In conclusion, it is a good article but it should be going deeper in which that she have to discuss what is the causes of judgement of a female based on her appearance and the solution toward this status quo and lastly the aim of this evolution that she wanted to see.
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I agree that that the article requires further elaboration. Her examples are from unreliable sources such as an unknown woman's magazine.If she were to provide details of the magazine, then we could find out the credibility of her statistics and use it as a point to consider in this issue.The writer also tries an analogue to explain women's adherence to beautifying therapies with alien abduction. Her efforts only causes confusion as to how aliens and beautifying are related to each other.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the statement that the article needs further elaboration and the structure of sentences of the article too are not clear and can confuse the readers. However, the words used are understandable by readers from all backgrounds except the word 'corpus callosum'.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone here that the writer indeed failed to provide further elaboration on the examples given. She makes the reader doubt the solidity of her points and examples given. David, by your phrase “…beauty which is also an asset to them which they have the right to chose to judge on themselves”, are you trying to indicate that women have the right to chose whether or not to be judged based on their beauty? I however think that women are not given the choice as to whether they want to be judged based on their beauty or not because people naturally judge each other based on the visual things they can see especially if that person does not know the latter personally.
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