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Kylee Zempel makes the case why the left's elevation of ugliness is bad for women:

A convergence of the Me Too movement, the body positivity movement, multi-wave feminism, the smartphone generation, and the sexual revolution has left women confused, and frankly, it’s left them uglier.

It’s left them uglier not only in attitude — we’ve all seen that from the disgruntled women in p-ssy hats screaming profanities at inanimate government buildings — although that’s part of it. There’s nothing attractive about misplaced and uncontrolled anger, whether it comes from men or women.

But it’s also left them physically ugly. This unattractiveness comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s intentionally unflattering clothing or makeup. Other times it’s grotesque haircuts, such as bizarre shaven spots that look like a bad lawn-mowing job or nonstop bedhead, or flaunting body hair.

Not to mention, it’s created aggressive opposition to the appreciation of beauty. Take a look at this Ph.D. in Psychology Today lecturing adults on “Why We Need to Stop Telling Little Girls How Pretty They Are.”

This is hardly an exhaustive list of this modern defiance because the non-beautiful is always rearing its head in new ways. But like I said, this phenomenon has emerged thanks to quite the confluence of factors.

For instance, “body positivity” concluded rightly that women of all shapes and sizes should recognize their self-worth. The movement wrongly swung to the extreme of glorifying obesity, such as on the cover of Cosmo and every other major women’s magazine and advertisement. Here’s obese star Lizzo celebrating more weight gain.

Likewise, the sexual revolution gave a thumbs up to exploitation, and feminism endorsed the masculinization of women — and with each drift and deconstruction of beauty, too many women were left looking and feeling less like themselves.

To encourage uglification is offensive and demeaning to women. Worse, it's dehumanizing. Of course, there's also the following to consider:

It’s in this practical expression of beauty that both the left and the fundamentalist right can pendulum swing so far as to meet on the other side in a full circle. While the left tends to suppress beauty so as not to conform to a “patriarchal” standard of sex appeal, the fundamentalist religious right tends to react to sexualization with an elevation of the frumpy and androgynous under the banner of “modesty.”

Thus while many on the left reject conventional beauty standards (often calling them “constructs”) and desperately try to fit in by standing out and defying norms, the right’s disdain for luxury and indulgence can lead them to the same rejection of the beautiful. A religious skepticism of allure and desire can produce a different kind of objectification that leads faithful women to feel that their God-given sexuality is actually a curse.

Yes, the religious movement's also decidedly guilty of attacking feminine beauty as though it were literally an abomination, when they make hysterical fusses over "modesty", as in the case of Haredi prudes over here in Israel, which decidedly hurt religious advocates, including the non-Haredi religious figures. They supposedly expect women to be feminine, yet they condemn them when they dress in tank tops and miniskirts? See, this is exactly why it's all backfired in a big way, and the left undoubtably exploited this weakness to take the situation from bad to worse (and the Islamic religion's also part of the problem). Now, we're seeing the results.

That's why the religious right's got to grind to a halt with petty issues like "modesty", because it's come back and bitten them in the ass. Encourage women to be hot and sexy, and not to dress "modestly", because it only causes more harm than good for the fairer sex, and then the left makes it worse. We can't afford that any longer.

Labels: misogyny, Moonbattery