Not long before, I had a debate with one of my net pals on the controversial topic whether these gifted but plain-looking females were worth the pride. In his opinion, beauty is the only element accounts for the pride of a woman, and as for the plain-looking but capable women, their entire great endeavor for success is merely an excuse to run away from the fact that they are not beautiful in appearance. If they take pride of themselves, they are just blind, as he said.
I was shocked and angry of course, and I told him at once, I was by no means beautiful but still take pride of myself, because of my excellent school records and performance at present job and great ambition as well. I know some may argue that those who claimed care nothing or even look down upon the beauty is just because she herself cannot be beautiful, but I don’t think it’s always the case.
Beautiful appearance is just a flower, which will certainly wither as time goes by, but there is one thing that always remains the same, it’s the capability. If one is endowed with both beauty and talent, it’s definitely very good, and even though she is aging, her inner beauty won’t fade away. If one is deprived of beautiful appearance, but is paid back excellent competence, then she still has her own charm to be proud of. If one only looks beautiful, but is incapable of all kinds of things, including her own business, then she is only a vase, which can only be used to display. I just look down such kind of girls. In my eyes, they are far from real beauty without the support of ability, though they may look beautiful.
I’m aware of the fact that it’s still a man-dominated society today, and women are likely to be judged by her physical appearance at the first sight. In fact, I was once told that this is called “eye-ball economy”, namely, a beautiful girl will certainly attract men’s attention unconsciously and thus making some profits, such as the models for the advertisement. They tend to wear less and less clothes in public to show their good figure to lure and stimulate the male purchasers to buy the products. I simply have sympathy for them. Once the beauty equals the sheer profit in such an uncivilized way; it is really sort of tragedy. In addition, it’s widely proved that women, especially these bad-looking women, have to pay much more to acquire the opportunity to show their real ability. I still remember that once an ugly girl made thousands of attempts to look for even a humble job, but all she got was rejection only due to her appearance, but she didn’t give up, and finally she got a job in a nursing center. Her kindness and persistence achieve her the respect of the society. I’m impressed by her story, and if I were she, I would certainly take pride of myself.
I’m just so disappointed to find the fact that few men can manage to pay no attention to the appearance of their future wife. They confess that as ordinary friend, they don’t care whether the girl is beautiful, but when it comes to girlfriend, it’s totally different, she must be beautiful, at least, cannot be ugly. That net-pal just laughed at my childishness, and he told me almost no men would like to see his wife do better job in her career than he do, let alone appreciate her excellent performance. In most cases, they only prefer a beautiful wife as a vase. Hence, this is exactly the truth that there is no fairness under the sunshine. Men and women can never be equal!
Nevertheless, whatever looks like, beautiful or ugly, I do think those females who focus on the development of their character and talent is worthy of pride, because to some extent, real beauty depends on kindness, positive attitude towards life and so on,rather than physical appearance…
