Appearance discrimination itself is discrimination in personality and human rights and a weakness of human nature. Discrimination against looks will do harm to people with bad looks, leaving them with no chance to develop, realize the value of life and have no right to live a normal life, thus giving up on themselves, hating society and going to extremes.
The benefits of beauty seem to be beyond doubt. Aristotle said more than two thousand years ago that "beauty is the best letter of introduction". In the highly competitive commercial society, the commercial value and social value of beauty are undoubtedly higher.
After years of investigation and study, Steven Jeffries, an American writer, wrote the book "Appearance First", which confirmed the common "pleasing to the eye complex" in society with detailed information, and drew the following conclusions: "Good-looking people" are 2 to 5 times more likely to be hired in recruitment than ordinary people; The average salary of "good-looking people" is higher than that of "ordinary people" 12% to16%; "Ugly people" are two to six times more likely to be fired than "ordinary people".
Now cosmetics stores are mushrooming, and business is getting better and better. It is reported that Shanghainese spent 600 million yuan on beauty last year. Appearance-especially in the eyes of girls, it is really an "overwhelming event". If you look better, you want to add icing on the cake. If you look worse, you can't sleep at night and worry. Not only celebrities have plastic surgery, but also ordinary people have plastic surgery. Not only do adults have plastic surgery, but even "starting with dolls" is popular. A 14-year-old girl in Grade Two of a middle school in Wenjiang, Chengdu, has excellent academic performance, but she was forced to steal 4,000 yuan from her family for plastic surgery because she was rated as one of the ugliest m-girls in the school ... Why? Just to be ugly? I think the most important thing is not ugliness itself, but the pressure of ugliness, the evaluation of ugly women, and the ridicule and ridicule contained in the words of "four ugly women" In fact, there is some information hidden behind the plastic surgery trend: in the face of fierce competition for survival, with the deepening tendency of the body as capital, people are more and more suspicious of their physical disadvantages and less and less trusting themselves, thus trying to change themselves to adapt to social evaluation and please secular standards. For example, according to a recent survey in Taiwan Province Province, 965,438+0% of female respondents were anxious about their body image, indicating that they had plans to lose weight and have plastic surgery. In Japan and South Korea, cosmetic surgery is more popular. In Tokyo alone, there are more than 400 cosmetic hospitals. There are more in Seoul, South Korea, more than 900. There, cosmetic medicine is regarded as an industry, and its output value has surpassed that of specialist medicine such as heart and chest. Isn't there a saying? Korean beauties are all cut out with scissors.
"My fair lady, a gentleman is good". Physical natural advantages can be transformed into acquired survival advantages. Girls with beautiful faces and good figure are more likely to make their eyes "charged" and give people pleasure, thus winning the priority of survival opportunities. The same is true for finding a job. According to Wuhan Changjiang Daily, a fresh female graduate made a bold move after sending her application letter: she posted a low-cut photo of herself on the new job application materials, that is, ... here, she claimed to be a "beauty" recognized by the school. As a result, many well-known companies extended an olive branch to "Beauty": Welcome to the company!
Judging people by their appearances is a common fault of human nature. Westerners have done experiments: a pair of ordinary and beautiful girls stood on the side of the road pretending to wait for the bus ... as a result, there were far more parking spaces around the beautiful women than their companions, and they even got into a fight. What's more, both Kennedy and Nixon made speeches on radio and television to run for president. As a result, the eloquent Nixon became an instant hit on the radio program, but he lost to the handsome Kennedy as soon as he got on TV. Of course, there are other reasons, but it is said that appearance is at least an important factor.
Although most people face ugliness, the first thing they think of is change. But there are also women who don't want to change this physiological fact. They feel that plastic surgery is a denial of themselves. This in itself is a kind of dignity injury. Instead of blindly changing the physical surface, it is better to start from the inside and improve the personal quality and charm. At all times and in all countries, examples of this kind of "external loss and internal compensation" abound.
Zhang Jing, a 25-year-old Tianjin girl, is very ugly. She tried to find a job a thousand times. Especially in Zhang Jingyi's family of four, the father suffers from polio and cerebral hemorrhage, the mother suffers from uremia and the elder sister-in-law suffers from schizophrenia. The whole family can only live on five or six hundred yuan. She only eats one Chinese meal a day and is in debt of more than 10 thousand yuan. The only person who can find a job is Zhang Jing. Because of her ugly appearance, she has no choice but to find a job.
Social justice and personal suffering, social morality and personal misfortune, are social systems and personal circumstances absolutely supreme? Is the latter absolutely insignificant? In order not to succumb to discrimination, Zhang Jing should stick to ugliness to the end. What this cold rationality lacks is the most basic human nature. Solving social discrimination is a matter for the whole society. Is there any reason to sacrifice Zhang Jing's hope for happiness? When Zhang Jing can't stand the pressure of social discrimination, any effort to help Zhang Jing avoid this pressure is humane; It is inhuman to try to prove that Zhang Jing can only endure the weight of social discrimination, and is not born with preaching to escape rights. In the words of john rawls's Theory of Justice: "Everyone has the inviolability based on justice, even in the name of the overall interests of society." Whether it is for the nature of loving beauty, for the smooth employment, or for the basic self-esteem, Zhang Jing's plastic surgery is "inviolable based on justice." No one has the right to say "no" for any reason, except Zhang Jing herself.