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Round on me!
Amy Schumer initiates her critique of social hierarchy based on beauty in a sketch “Rounds” of the comedy show— Inside Amy Schumer. In this sketch, she represents the plain-looking girl and her skinny friends act as the popular girls in the society. Schumer and two other skinny friends are sitting in a bar, chatting about woman body figures. Her friend begins the conversation, “I am like a different size at every store. At Zara, I am a beast. At J Crew, I am like a supermodel.” On the contrary, Schumer honestly admits, “Yeah, I am a nine across the board like it doesn’t matter where I go”. (Schumer, 2015) Her friend contemptuously rolls her eyes, looking down upon her unfavorable response. she is yet …show more content…
Molly Tilghman once presented the view point from 18th century, ”Wisdom says beauty is a fading flower—but it attracts more admiration than wit, goodness, or anything else in the world.” In western cultures, for instance, young represents vitality and spirit; great shape seduces people’s sex desire, especially in a society that values men’s desires above women’s; blonde and long hair stands for the mainstream hair beauty. The reason why that women urge to climb up on the social hierarchy pyramid is that women usually find it difficult to concentrate other people’s attention on themselves for their other talents if they are not attractive enough. As a natural progression, being accepted logically becomes the first thing to do. Men carries the same burdens from social expectation as well but as much as women does on the issue of beauty. People prefer to believe that beauty is an inborn talent, but it actually depends on how people appreciate it rather than an innate attribute. In ancient China during Tang dynasty, the emperor prize plumpness over thinness. However, no matter what beauty standard it is, the beauty people create limits only to physical image of who they are based on appearance only, not exactly who they are based on talent overall. For some who are so obsessed with this fabricate image, people gradually lose their true selves because they give too much amplification on the beauty until it gets distorted. Most people do not fit into the general norm for beauty at any time period would make tons of effort to fit into the social norm, sacrificing time, interest even health to compensate for what they do not have. The purpose of doing so is simply to get self-validation from peers and the pubic. Few women dress up beautiful just for being beautiful but they are trying to present a positive image of themselves to the male-dominated society at large. It is marketing, and people