WOMEN BODY IMAGE 30 by Patricia Raffia

Furthermore, she’s saying it in a down to earth manner, as any social commentator would/ should. It’s far different from sexual psychologists, who treat the issue like a mental disease, with prescriptions and diagnoses and treatments; or sociologists, acting like autistic Homosapien zoologists, who treat human beings like animals in an Animal Planet documentary. Intellectual elites have an interest in making humanity’s sociological problems are complex and difficult to articulate, let alone understand, let alone cure. It’s in their interest to have the problems seem utterly confusing and crazy – when in fact we need down-to-Earth columnist to use simple language, and use it in a simple way, so as to spread the diagnosis of what is causing female body image problems.
But there is a serious defect to the way O’Brien said it in her column. This brings me to the second part of my analysis. This is a defect in O’Brien’s soft-left approach to the world and it’s something that I will discuss now:
O’Brien is saying that the system is not something to be challenged; by the entire system, I mean the whole doctrinal system of women being judged by their looks at society being beauty-meritocratically superficial towards women’s place within our society. O’Brien has always been the soft-left commentator who says that all society has ever needed and will ever need is a gentle amelioration in the right direction and the world will be made a wonderful perfect place.

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