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After she reclaimed her seat, Lovelie asked Emmanuel, Honey, lead us in prayer before the food cools? Certainly the idea that beauty is goodness isn't a new one; for much of history, we've equated beauty with moral goodness, the idea being that what is beautiful is good, and vice versa.
Beauty-as-goodness might seem like it's a relief of the beauty imperative, but what's more wrist-smacking than the idea that you'd be prettier if only you were a better human? I don’t know how many studies I’ve read that say that the number-one must-wear cosmetic women cite as essential is mascara. Appearance is in and on our bodies, lending the fallacies of beauty the impression of visceral truth. You can’t use oil-based makeup remover; you can’t let water stream down your face; you can’t sleep on your side (my solution here was to just sleep with my head on the pillow but my face off of it).As per usual, the headline isn't accurate at all; the study measured whether product claims were seen as accurate, which is an entirely different matter. I respected how hard Emmanuel’s father had worked to build his agricultural trade business and the obstacles he’d overcome while doing so. Sex, looks, and normalcy: Humans walk a fine line here to avoid falling on the “wrong” side, and women have more experience in navigating that line than men. Europeans became fascinated with the East, “othering” Asian society and rendering cultural practices impossibly exotic, the people full of mystery and secrets.
Most of all, he’s got the look, which boils down not to physical clues—he could just as easily be dressed in Silicon Valley chic as in the clichéd construction-worker gear—but an expression (or is it an expression you redraw in your head once he’s passed, once he’s said whatever it is that he’s going to say, once he’s confirmed that yes, he won’t you pass with the dignity of silence?The first time it happened, I was in Hell’s Kitchen, steeling myself against whatever the man walking toward me was sure to say. What that shift tells me, though, is that there might have been something that could have flipped on that switch earlier in my life.
That is, I made the classic mistake of thinking that things strange men said to me were about me, not about sex, gender, and power. I’d been confirmed that spring; I was now an adult member of the congregation, not the mere child I was at 12.
Also, I discovered Milka, which is probably of lesser quality than even Lindt, but—I mentioned I'm not a snob, right? However, the last time I began drinking before sitting down to dinner, she’d asked Daniel whether I had a drinking problem. The “best-developed” fringe belonged to “the aesthetic and artistic classes”; long lashes could indicate shyness and timidity, or secretiveness, indicating that “their owner is too shy or too timid to be perfectly frank and outspoken. It's a reflection of how I see myself as a beauty commenter, in a way—an outsider with the tools to participate, but not the sleek wrapping.
It’s a perfectly fine theory until you question why it’s women, and not men, who wear makeup (for the most part), when both sexes have an evolutionary need to attract the other.
Goodness was beautiful, sin was ugly, and since Mary was the ultimate goodness, she pretty much had to be the ultimate beauty. I’d been attending friends-and-family Friday night dinners at their house for years, and she’d never attended or was mentioned. I shared my own experience, and she’d noticed it too: “What, do they think they’re our girlfriends now?
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