“Not beauty but respectability is only skin deep.” – anonymous
At first I didn’t get this idea, so I tried to come up with something that had outer beauty but would somehow deny respectability at the same time. A hairy underarm on a beautiful woman seemed the perfect illustration.
The surface styles and trends of an season, an era or a culture are often seen as being the same as respectability. What is on the surface is what others see and judgments are made based on that. The more critical of judgments is not the one deciding if someone is beautiful, but if someone is respectable.
For example, if an American sorority is picking between two girls at rush, and there is the plain one with shaved underarms or the beautiful one with unshaved underarms, which one do you think they will pick?
I predict they will pick the plain one. Why? Because they care more about surface respectability than beauty when it comes down to it.
How do you judge in this same way? How do you combat this type of judgment? Or is it valid to do so?
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