Beauty Is Power
Why are women so obsessed with beauty? The answer is because beauty is power! Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Nefertiti, and other world-renown beauties could not have said it any better. This knowledge also confirms why the cosmetics business is a multi-billion dollar industry.
Ironically, though, the definition of beauty is more than meets the eye. Everybody knows that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, or that beauty is relative. Mysteriously, a lot of people are in agreement when a top ten list or even longer, is compiled—which only goes to show that no matter how relative beauty is, it does have some universal standards which goes above and beyond winning a Ms. Universe title.
Unknown to most men, their gender is prone to manipulation through beauty. This is aptly demonstrated by the classic jawbone lock and open mouth syndrome often trigged simply by a beautiful girl passing by. The beauty power play occurs as often in the bedroom as it does in the corporate boardroom. It is that one power by which women are able to even out the odds in the battle of the sexes.
What are some of the sure signs that men are succumbing to the beauty bait, apart from the jawbone lock syndrome? Unconscious winks, an automatic smile, an involuntary tap on the shoulders are such overt indicators. Some studies even indicate that that smartest men can turn into instant dunces when shown a deck of cards featuring beautiful women. While replication studies are currently on the way to prove or disprove this point, men are still falling flat on their faces and forgetting their pick up lines at beauty’s passing.
If only there’s a pill that reverses beauty’s awkward effects? Who knows, this might be invented in the future. After all, there’s really a need for it! Until then, beauty counselors can only advice their clients to stay as far away from beauty as possible!
Sophia Loren, another celebrated beauty once said that beauty is how one feels inside and is reflected in one’s eyes. She emphasized that it is definitely not something physical. Jaqueline Bisset once said that her mouth was too big and so was her nose to turn off beauty watchers overzealous to add her in their beauty watch list. Did she succeed? No she did not. She still ended up in the list somehow.
Men (often the worst victims of beauty) will make the best and objective judges of beauty. The task should never be left in the hands of beautiful women for they sometimes lose their objectivity in the process. Surely, it’s hard to become an objective judge when you yourself are part of the problem?
Until a cure is found, beautiful women will continue to wage beauty like a weapon. Men, for their part, can continue to look the other way as their first line of defense. They may even consider approaching their local government representative to propose a bill espousing the need to protect men from beauty’s harassment.
And what about beautiful men? They also present a serious threat to otherwise well-meaning men, for these kinds are likely to have equal rights to the men’s room, creating real pressure on that eternally diminishing male resource called self control. Famous French philosopher and writer Albert Camus decries beauty’s exile in his famous treatise, Helen’s Exile. But for now it seems, this may be the only real solution pending the invention of that highly sought after anti-beauty drug!
Tieri Schoheit is the owner of
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