“It is still beauty before brains” by Chok Suat Ling is a simple article with lots of example. However, the author is strayed away from her main objectives of writing this article.
For this article, its main purpose is to make the society realize that we are on the wrong path and we are doing something bad - that is we are judging the women based on their appearance more than their ability and knowledge. Besides, she should have to increase the awareness of the society that this issue will lead to what problem and there is a need that we need to solve this problem RIGHT NOW.
However, the author had only manage to achieve one of the three objectives. She successfully make the reader realize that we are discriminating the women by judging them based on their appearance more than their knowledge. Although there are a lot of question popping up in the reader's mind when reading the article, but she manage to bring this message to reader that we are now having this phenomena.
But, the author fail to give us an illustration of how bad this phenomena is. How bad its affect the women and the effect of this to the women will affect the men and also the society. Will it affect only the women or it will cause a bad cycle that it eventually affect the whole development of the nation. Due to this failure, the author are not able to rise up the feeling of the reader that they need to stop this phenomena. The reader will not feel that this is a bad thing and it give a lot of problem and it need to be solved immediately.
In conclusion, the article does not give any impact toward the reader. It does not create ripple in dead water of the heart of the reader. I have to admit that it is a failure. I would like to suggest the author to give some suggestion to solve this issue.
I agree with you on this matter as i, personally as a reader did not feel an urge to resolve this matter. The author did not stress on the urgency of the matter and its impact on the society and country. The fact that the author preferred a narrow scope is what leads to this. But i do believe that the main point of the article had been delivered to the readers.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you that the examples and illustrations given, were so poor that they didn't create a spirit among the readers to put a fullstop to the discrimination towards women by judging them based on their physical appearance. As a reader, I don't really have a clear idea on how serious this problem is and what are the effects it can bring about to the society.
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