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thesquanderer

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5. I actually find this a bit disturbing and in a sense anti-feminist
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 11:37 PM
Apr 2015

Imagine a comparable experiement for men, with doors marked Handsome and Average. Sure, you could do it, but it would be completely different in its impact on the participants, because men are not judged as overwhelmingly on looks alone.

So here we have a project that, at its core, seems to be trying to make all women see themselves as beatiful. Doesn't that just reinforce that the most important thing a woman should be is beautiful? Is that really a good thing?

Rather than trying to convince every woman that she is in some way beautiful, I think it might be better to try to get people to see that, just as for men, appearance is not the most important thing about a woman.

But if we accept that as futile, then maybe this is the next best thing...?

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