New Words, Same Meanings

            People nowadays love to live in the past and when said people see a social shift beginning to occur, they quickly fly to their keyboards to push the blame on today’s society. Both articles of Dadbod: A New Word for a Timeless Physique and The Death of Pretty both criticize one thing – a new perspective to a controversial topic.

            In the article Dadbod: A New Word for a Timeless Physique, writer Spencer Kornhaber does not compose a well, balanced out article about the growing sensation of the “dadbod.” Instead he criticizes how much men everywhere are embracing the term and enjoying their curvy figure. Spencer writes in what I believe is his thesis, “But it’s probably a mistake to take too much satisfaction from having a dadbod.” The reason for someone thinking that men everywhere embracing their figure and being happy in their own body is a problem is something I don’t think I will ever understand.   

             Pat Archbold writes “Pretty, pretty is dying” in his article The Death of Pretty which talks about how little the word pretty is being used and how more woman nowadays strive to be “hot.” But, is pretty really dying? Or is the media simply just using different adjectives when describing a celebrities’ outfit or advertising a product? One of Archbold’s main points can be shown in the sentence, “Our society doesn’t value innocence anymore, real or imagined.” I think that’s a pretty bold statement to make about society as a whole just based on choice of words. Whether women want to be pretty or hot doesn’t matter, because the words that are put in the comment and caption sections don’t define people. Their values do.

            Whether people think being proud of having a “dadbod” is not right or calling yourself “hot” instead of pretty is wrong doesn’t matter at all. I believe it’s all about what you think about yourself and how you perceive the person in the mirror.