In the short essay "Dadbod: A New World for a Timeless Physique" Spencer Kornhaber writes, "In the time since, #dadbod has gone viral on social media, to the cheers of Jason Segel lookalikes everywhere". In this essay Kornhaber explains to us what a dabbod is and though he states that the idea of the dadbod is old he shares examples of the new found love for the term and physique. Kornhaber ends his essay by telling us the term dadbod ultimately is just a new way for women to be able to classify men just as men have in the past have classified women with terms such as "BBW" and "thick". Every women is not attracted to the dadbod and personally I do not want one till I am about 40 and actually a dad
In the next essay "The Death of Pretty" the author Patrick Archbold mourns a dying ideal that women should strive to be beautiful yet innocent, "pretty", in which he explains that his definition for pretty is, "A mutually enriching balanced combination of beauty and projected innocence". Archbold goes on to state, "Young women today do not seem to aspire to pretty, they prefer to be regarded as hot" and attributes Hollywood stars, the desire to be desired by men, and the past forty years of women's liberation to the decline of this aspiration. Archbold also states that’s hotness turns women into a tangible good that will eventually be used up. His bias toward "pretty" over "hot" is ever present throughout the entire essay and concludes with a plea to women to bring back the concept in society that innocence is okay. Women should feel comfortable in their body and the attack on women in this essay is not going to make them feel bad, not every woman wants to be pretty/hot as defined in this essay.
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