leopoldgursky:

Michelle Dean, “Me Be Pretty One Day” - The Rumpus

“Because I know what I know about the way ‘prettiness’ is artillery to the soul, I clamped down on it quickly. But the blush crept across my face, anyway.”

This is so interesting. I’ve always been fascinated by (and wondered why) the fact of beauty is so important to me—how it’s something I’ve always wanted and thought myself incapable of, how I’ve sometimes even valued it over what I can do intellectually, bodily, emotionally. Is it wrong to want and idealize beauty on my own? is it feeding into problems of societal evaluation by such insufficient terms? or am I allowed to wish for it just as I am, despite?

Interesting article on beauty in the literary sector. It’s hard to draw the line between physical identity and emotional identity because they are so interconnected. How much influence does one have on the other? What is actually beautiful according to society and why does this definition change?

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