Jalynn Reeter English 101 Group Summary September 29, 2016
Women generally have a higher standard of beauty for themselves than men do, and, therefore, put in much more effort into how they look. Men do not worry about their appearance nearly as much as women. Generally, a man will deem himself as average-looking and then be content with this for the rest of his life; men will not go through hours of worrying about the way they look. Contrastingly, women tend to be less satisfied with their appearance and constantly try to change it. Barry says, “No matter how attractive a woman may appear to be to others, when she looks at herself in the mirror, she thinks: woof” (Barry par. 6). This constant self-judgement of how women look is caused by major self-esteem problems. Low self-esteem in women is attributed to ridiculous beauty standards set by society, causing women to compare themselves to barbie dolls and successful models. Men, for the most part, do not compare themselves to others and instead find ways to boost their self-esteem. While women may be spending hours on making themselves more beautiful, men don’t notice most of the effort women put into looking a certain way. Beauty standards for women are higher than men's because of the way beauty is portrayed in society, and men do not care about or put in near as many efforts as women do into their appearance.