{"id":56316,"date":"2013-10-16T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56316"},"modified":"2014-06-09T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:01:18","slug":"an-argument-for-the-total-irrelevance-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/16\/an-argument-for-the-total-irrelevance-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"An Argument for the Total Irrelevance of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love Your Body Day<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0is this is our favorite body positive post of the year, re-posted in celebration. \u00a0Enjoy these seven beautiful minutes in which Kara Kamos explains that she is ugly and she couldn&#8217;t care less (most of the time):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2js063a1Suk?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What&#8217;s more important than being beautiful?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breathing<\/li>\n<li>Living<\/li>\n<li>The universe<\/li>\n<li>New life forms<\/li>\n<li>Doing stuff<\/li>\n<li>Friends<\/li>\n<li>Having fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Personally, I really identified with the discussion that starts at 3:51 about not letting how she looks get in the way of her doing things. \u00a0Often when I&#8217;m asked to do public speaking or appear on video, a part of me silently asks the question, &#8220;Am I attractive enough to deserve to do this?&#8221; \u00a0The question is absurd. \u00a0Not because I AM pretty enough, but because the question assumes that, if I weren&#8217;t, I would turn down an opportunity <em>on that basis alone<\/em>. \u00a0 And that \u00a0is plain silliness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/16\/from-our-archives-love-your-body-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">all of our body loving posts<\/a> from the archive!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is \u00a0Love Your Body Day\u00a0and\u00a0is this is our favorite body positive post of the year, re-posted in celebration. \u00a0Enjoy these seven beautiful minutes in which Kara Kamos explains that she is ugly and she couldn&#8217;t care less (most of the time): What&#8217;s more important than being beautiful? Breathing Living The universe New life forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,244,55,2089],"class_list":["post-56316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-fat","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56316"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62933,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56316\/revisions\/62933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}