If you have a Pinterest account or a Tumblr account, you will probably agree that there isn't a day you log onto your account and don't find some new exercise plan or fitness motivation or healthy recipe. I think it's a fair bet to say that most girls my age would choose beauty over intelligence if given the choice. My professors are always lecturing me on how our society is becoming more technologically dependent and we need to be able to communicate online. While that is true, this lack of face-to-face interaction hasn't seemed to lower our obsession with appearance. Success does depend on looks, whether we like it or not and being unattractive can be a huge hindrance. Actually, the television show playing on my TV right now is about a woman who is in fear of losing her beauty with age.
I've been reading a lot of books recently. My insomnia causes more reading, not the other way around like you'd imagine. The two most recent books I read were The Hate List by Jennifer Brown and Every Day by David Levithan. The Hate List is the story of a girl who's boyfriend initiated a school shooting and the reaction of returning to school. Every Day was about someone who doesn't have a physical body but takes over the body of another person, a different person every day. But even in two books that on the surface have nothing to do with beauty really are all about appearance at the core.
In Every Day, the main character can not find love because of lack of an appearance. The girl the narrator starts a relationship with shows more or less affection depending on the body the narrator is in. In The Hate List, one of the characters gets hit in the face by a ricocheted bullet and becomes disformed. Even though everyone has been through a traumatic event, she is the only one that can't seem to cope because she has lost her status and, in that, her identity.
As Brown said, "Being pretty isn't everything, but sometimes being ugly is."
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