Do you want a loyal, pretty girl,
or do you want a promiscuous, hot girl?
According to Archibald's article “The Death of Pretty", that is
pretty much Archibald's ultimatum. He references a period of time back in the
'' old day '' where a female would take pride in being innocent rather than in
2016 where it is socially acceptable for a girl to be wild. A key sentence from
the article that could bring out the thesis is “Our problem is that society
doesn’t value innocence anymore, real or imagined. Nobody aspires to innocence anymore. Nobody wants to be thought of as innocent, the
good girl." Even though I am totally for girls presenting themselves in a
more respectable fashion and I, myself, would rather date an innocent, cute
girl than a promiscuous, "hot" one; I feel like Archibald came off
this article slightly misogynistic. He treated women as if they were objects whose
sole purpose in life is to look '' pretty'' for men. I do believe women should
be able to wear whatever they want, but they should understand if they dress a
certain way, they will attract certain guys; guys they would not like to
attract.
In the Dadbod article, the author
was extremely lighthearted, and wrote how having a Dadbod was a huge trend
rewarding laziness with success. A good thesis to this article was “…play sports, eat pizza is exactly
what pop-culture has long said guys should be doing while women strain to
maintain the holy size zero.” He even references T.V shows such as the Simpsons
which is totally accurate concerning double standards since the husband is fat,
while his wife is slim and attractive. This applies to real life since you will
rarely find a handsome man with an ugly girl, but it’s not uncommon to find a
semi-ok looking guy with a gorgeous girl. This is because a guy needs more than
looks to attract a girl to him, but if you an attractive girl, it’s easy to
attract any guy.
I agree with you in the fact that "if you're an attractive girl, it's easy to attract any guy" to a certain extent... A guy may find a girl attractive but if she doesn't have a personality or anything he most likely won't keep her around. Same goes with your point of "a guy needs more than looks to attract a girl to him", a guy only needs looks to attract a girl but in order to keep a girl he must have more of a personality and things. It is pretty much the same for boys and girls, if you're attractive you can attract the opposite sex, but if your personality isn't there then you lose them.
ReplyDeleteI agree that every man wants an “innocent” girl but when you first see a female what makes you attracted to her and want to approach her? Her looks I can dress and be perceived as hot but in all actuality I am one of those innocent girls. You honestly never know a girl until you speak to her and learn her personality. I agree that the article seemed like he is viewing women as objects, to me it relates to the way women dress and their chances of getting raped. Also in Dadbod I don’t think he is just making reference to “flabby-guy/ skinny girl” because he also mentions “era of the booty” where having a butt is starting to become more acceptable than just being skinny.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that a man needs to admire a girls personality and vice versa, but for there to be a spark between the two beings. Physical attraction may be the bait to attract the man or girl, but personality is what reels in the catch. Every great relationship has both that physical and mental attraction so in reality if you fall in love with someone’s personality it immediately makes that person more attractive to you. Looks matter at the beginning but in the long run personality makes or breaks a relationship. So look however you want because there is someone out there that will think that you are amazing inside and out.
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