“It is still beauty before brains” by Chok Suat Ling addresses the situation where women are judged by their physical appearance than their ability and capability.

The language used in the article is quite simple and can be understood by the public as the article is published in the News Strait Time newspaper. However, some words and sentences are hard to understand without the aid of a dictionary. This can be supported by the following examples.

The sentence from the second paragraph, "Girls also have a thicker corpus callosum -- they are "wired" differently and are thus better in many respects" is quite confusing and need to be read several times to understand the meaning of the sentence.

The author has provided a plenty of examples and evidences to support her article Fiona Bruce(a female newsreader), Rebecca Adlington( British swimmer) and Zoe Smith (British weightlifter) are used as her evidence. Although these examples can be trusted, the author should include some sources such as name of the magazine and the year it is published to make them more reliable.

The article mainly is about the judgement of women based on their appearance which shows that the author is biased. She does not represent the ideas of other groups fairly in this article. The writer also uses some sensitive issues in her article such as "(So, why do we need men again?)" which might create some controversy between males and females.

I agree with the most of the author's point in the article. I agree with her where she highlighted that women have achieved much by breaking barriers, records and creating history. I also agree that two third of public university students are females. Here, the author clarify that women are multi-talented and capable of doing anything equally to the male.

So, in my opinion women should be judged by the ability, capability, characteristics, personalities and their strengths. Agreeing with the writer "beauty is a blessing..." but should not be the main judgement material.