Upper Intermediate B- Citizenship Today
Unheard Voices
Folgar, Juan F.
A beautiful woman
On this article we are going to talk about the stereotypes of women, and how they have to fight with "perfection".
If we go back thirty years ago, we can see that the woman had a big body, and hips and legs with real flesh. Nowadays, stereotypes dictate that the woman has to be young, skinny, and if you look well, everywhere women are seen like a sexual object: on TV they show their body rather than their intelligence. In clothes stores there are small sizes, and shorts, and T-shirts are really the shortest.
Nowadays, the erotic appeal of women revolves around a structured concept: the body has to match a pre-determined shape and eroticism is based on showing some parts in special. For women having to have this "perfect body" is not nice, it is really annoying, having to be a person that you are not naturally. If you go to a shop to buy clothes and you