Monday, May 27, 2019

Week 5_Yueming Tan

Week 5
ASA 141
Yueming Tan

According to "Race and Beauty: A Comparison of Asian and Western Models in Women's Magazine Advertisements" by Katherine Toland Frith, Hong Cheng, and Ping Shaw, the author proposes a massive difference in aesthetics between women in the West and the East. First, the authors suggest that people's impressions of Western women are sexy and enthusiastic. The impression of women in the East is subtle, exotic, and full of fantasy. I think that the male aesthetics of the West and the East have caused women's suffering in men's aesthetics. This is very sad because women are often seen as weak in the East. For example, the ancient Chinese emperors like women with thin waists, a phenomenon that caused many women to die of hunger. This is sad because women should love themselves rather than cater to the morbid aesthetics of men. On the other hand, Foot binding is a terribly bad habit in ancient China. I never thought that breaking my feet was beautiful. This fuller male dominates the ugliness and ignorance of the patriarchal society.

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