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Worrying about looks is not a choice if it has real consequences on your career, especially when young. Women are especially pressured to maintain their appeara
by SolaceQuantum 8y ago
Worrying about looks is not a choice if it has real consequences on your career, especially when young. Women are especially pressured to maintain their appearance along many axises that are difficult to manage. This pressure presumably fades as one gets older according to the writer.
- fsfsdff56sdf 8y agoCitation needed. I know many not so pretty women in successful careers.
- techtalsky 8y agoYour anecdotal experience isn't an effective counterpoint though. Here's a citation in the neighborhood: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/12/05/americans-see-different-expectations-for-men-and-women/ http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/12/05/americans-see-diff...
- fsfsdff56sdf 8y agoWhat does "society values" mean, though? These women in their 70ies supposedly don't care about being attractive. So the only thing that matters is could they get decent jobs if they were unattractive. They supposedly don't care about societies evaluation of their attractiveness anyway. And we were talking about "pressure to be attractive". What form does that take. What happens to you if you are unattractive?