by
charmaine_here
@ Friday, May. 12, 2006 - 20:08:06
it was this ad in the paper which i just saw that triggered this sentiment.these kinda ads are very common and u see them everyday.it was abt this slimming centre which showed the "before and after" version of a previously fat woman.the after version showed the woman telling the readers "now my husband cant take his eyes off me".
well let me warn you that what im gonna write is not a funny piece, it is an outburst of couple of sentiments that i myself have been feeling for quite a few months.so here it goes. why are women so obsessed with honing their physical beauty to please their men? and why most of these women are under this insecurity that if they dont look pleasing and nice, it wud give enough reasons for their men to indulge in transgressions.why, why , WHY????
i deeply feel for this issue.why is that men are so free with their bodies and dont mind getting fat(they dont have to worry that fatness wud make their wives run away frm them)..why is that.im just trying to figure out.why do i thnk ten tousand and one times abt the way i look and my dress before meeting him.im sure he doesnt care whether is fat or ugly or dirty. another thing. can he stay in love with me without me staying beautiful forever(not that i am rite now!!
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why do i think that i need to be pretty and beautiful to keep himself forever in love with me.im not saying that the basis of this love is physical attraction, all im saying is dat is whether my being beautiful cud make him love me more...
i feel that a part of this problem lies in the larger issue of traditional gender relations in which a woman must keep her man "happy"....i dont understand wht is this "happiness" all abt.but it is assumed that a woman must groom herself and that too only for her husband(these are the notins in india)....of course i dont believe in them cos they try to say that a woman shud not try to look attarctive in the absence of ur husband...it is crazily crazy..
i knw that it is not only men that make women wana look good. women naturally wana look good out of their obsession wit beauty. but why is that sometimes a woman is blamed for not being good enough for her husband...i asked ted once abt one of his friends who was supposed to be happily married with two little kids , and had a caring wife too. i asked ted why was his friend sleepin outside marriage despite having a good wife and a loving family, ted replied very promptly,saying that she was sooo fat u knw...i said "but he loves his wife" , ted said "love and sex are two different things baby"...........
since that day i keep torturing ted abt this statement he made and i am waiting for the time to see it coming true for me too..........