Women’s bodies are a huge, factor in the way that men are attracted to them. Its funny because even an older man who is in his 50’s and 60’s can and will still try and find a trophy wife without even being as good looking or as valuable to the relationship as the girl is. The idea that being thin, or being in shape is a huge factor in what men see as beautiful. There can be 800 pretty successful, overweight women who would like to be married and who would like to be in a relationship, and she could offer would me better and more genuine than the ideal trophy wife, but still lacks, because she is not the ideal for that man.” Men look at women, and women watch themselves being looked at” (Wolf 58). Its funny how when u attend a wedding or a function a man is somewhat using u as a reflection of him, therefore putting pressure on for you to look good, wear makeup, high heals almost to impress all people to what trophy or prize he has won. How many females who are great women, are left for men who want just a “shiny new toy”. In idea that comes to mind is the scene in the movie “Wolf of Wall Street”.

 Jordan the main character leaves his wife to date and then marry the pretty blonde trophy wife, the trophy wife because of a status quo. It is seen in the scene when she in introduced that all his male friends are greatly impressed by this beautiful blonde model and his former wife is left in the dust. It just goes to show that men are attracted to women who have nothing to offer but good looks in that example. Jordan will quickly leave the good wife who has nothing wrong with her to be with the trophy to impress his friends company and society. This is how society makes men think that they have to impress or change a woman’s style to impress and make the masses impressed by him. When in reality the man is nothing special and can be fixed too himself. There is a wider variety of social acceptance of male beauty than there is female beauty.  Usually you cannot tell what a mans body looks like unless he is in tight clothing and especially if he is in a suit.

Us woman  who see other thin fit women in the media are having these thoughts that we are supposed to look like a supermodels, be blonde and pop babies out and still look, like a supermodel. Advertising as stated by Kilbourne makes a good point in that fact that,  "Advertising creates a mythical, WASP-oriented world in which no one is ever ugly, overweight, poor, struggling or disabled either physically or mentally (unless you count the housewives who talk to little men in toilet bowls.)" (Kilbourne, 122)

Another issue is that society does not view a woman’s reproductive organ as a gift or trophy but more so a hassle. How is it that Viagra is offered to men and covered by insurance, while abortion, which is the right of the woman to decide that she wants to not have the child, is costly and almost a hassle in itself. 

Birth control should be woman’s choice to reproductive freedom.” Reproductive freedom is a campaign issue. Reproductive freedom can be repealed or restricted. Reproductive freedom is not an inalienable right even though it should be” (Gay 273).  But why should anyone have a say in what a woman chooses to do with her body? Why would they charge so much money for birth control, but cover Viagra by insurance? This ties into the fact that women are viewed as objects for men. Instead of thinking that a woman is beautiful for giving birth to a baby, she is thought of as fat an unattractive, and therefore forced while in pain and recovering from her pregnancy, to be that exact wife or woman he married. Again living in this crazy 2015 patriarchal society, we are again there for the men, for the male gaze, how men perceive us and it is a hard thing to grasp the concept of because society is all like that, any country, any race, any nationality, will factor all that in that concept of the male gaze, as us an a minority being that object for them.” Here’s the thing about history - it repeats itself over and over and over. The witch hunts, and the demonization of contraception and abortion and the women who provided these services from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, are happening all over again." (Gay, 268) Roxane Gay is correct, in that factor because again and again over and over and over again we constantly see this struggle and for us to constantly move and improve ourselves.

Bibliography-

Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist: Essays. New York: Harper Perennial, 2014. Print.

Wolf, Naomi. "Culture." The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women. New York: W. Morrow, 1991. 58-85. Print.

Kilbourne, Jean. "Beauty and the Beast of Advertising." Beauty and the Beast of Advertising. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 121-25. Print.