For women, it is equated with certain privileged characteristics: being young, white, blond, fashionable, thin—as well as intangibles such as being virginal, innocent, and nurturing. In our hierarchical, competitive culture, only a small minority of women are deemed beautiful. Only a few are privileged to possess the seemingly magical ingredients of beauty, as it is narrowly defined. If everyone were considered beautiful, beauty would lose its power to control. By definition, then, beauty is regarded as if it were a scarce commodity. As
Disagree with beauty as scarce
