The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf Analysis

Imagine waking up everyday feeling like your not good enough to be living in this world, looking into the mirror fantasizing about the person society wants you to be, imagine someone constantly bringing you down and having nowhere to turn. It’s there day and night, consuming your life, everything you do your surrounded by the feeling of being good enough. This is reality for millions of females in today’s society. Trying to fit the role of “beauty” that society has made for them. Everywhere females go they are taunted by this images of what “beauty” is and it is consuming so many females lives. Naomi Wolf is to be praised for her amazing book The Beauty Myth, which focuses on society demolishing women physically and mentally. Wolf expresses …show more content…
Wolf said in her piece “thirty-three thousand American women told researchers that they would rather lose ten to fifteen pounds than achieve any other goal” (Wolf, 10) and this is something many people probably find insane, including myself. The first time I read The Beauty Myth I thought to myself what crazy person would rather shed a couple of pound over accomplishing their dreams, then the second time I read this I thought this is really bizarre, and the third time I read this I really thought to myself this means something. Once I thought hard enough I realized beneath all my shame, guilt, and denial that this is something I would say. It’s disgusting to think that women including myself would rather have society ruling our lives by making us believe that shaping ourselves to be their images of “beautiful” is more important then achieving our hopes and dreams. It is also insane to think that women are ashamed to admit to themselves and others that they want to fit into the image of “beauty”. It is a no win situation here, women aren't free in their own body and aren't free to admit that they feel trapped inside their own