Critique 2 – It is still beauty before brains

            The article ‘It is still beauty before brains’ by Chok Suat Ling is a very brainstorming article that raise up the issue of physical appearance judgment directed to female.

Speaking of the structure and organization of the article, the article is well-organized in the sense that it guides the readers to understand the issue step by step, exposing the readers slowly to the issue from the surface issue-the abilities of women illustrated by the awards that women received- to the core topic. The author starts the article with the relentless match forward and remarkable achievements of female in various fields. In my opinion, it is of utmost importance that the readers acquire some before hand knowledge on the achievements before they further analyze the author’s stand of female should not be judged by their physical appearance. The author then exposed the readers with all the evidence that female, including the athletes, are judged by their outlooks. The flaw present in this article is that though the evidence and examples provided in the article are plenty but some of the evidences are of unknown source. For example, the author had extracted the statistics from a women magazine which stated that being attractive helps in getting and the overweight people are often being discriminated. However, the name of the magazine is not stated. This will make the readers question the extent of credibility of the evidence. The tone of this article is accusatory in which male are accused to have the responsibility over the effect resulted from physical appearance judgment. The strong opinion and the choice of word used by the author – ‘so, why do we need men again?’ may lead to the arise of another controversial issue of stereotyping.

In general, this article is a mind-triggering article that is worth reading.