Wolf on Violence

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Wolf on Violence

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In her book , The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women , Naomi Wolf dares to go where no woman would dare go - the inner recesses of their own minds . It is here that Wolf a journalist by profession , has discovered something rather shocking . Women are victims of violence . But this kind of violence is not inflicted by society , let alone men . Rather , it is the women themselves who are inflicting this violence on their

own persons . One must now wonder why would women want to do that . Wolf 's answer is in pursuit of beauty . This is summed up by an unidentified insider from a pharmaceutical firm that manufactures beauty products and the like , Women take drugs in to be seen as feminine . The feminine woman .is slim , passive , deferential to men and does not exhibit emotions such as anger , frustration or assertiveness (quoted in Wolf ,

. 268

It can be inferred from Wolf 's thesis is that women are inherently masochistic , born to bear and endure pain and in its absence , would look for it and probably ask for more . Ironically , in this day and age when women have asserted their right and freedom , they are still hurting themselves and they are doing it by trying to become and stay beautiful The way Wolf and other feminists see it , these women are subliminally submitting themselves to the will of men unwittingly . Conventional...