The Death of Pretty/ DadBod

In the article “The Death of Pretty” by Pat Archbold describes the definition of beauty now a days. How girls are preferring the word hot over pretty or beautiful. The fact that some girls only feel happy and proud of themselves when someone calls them hot. It also brings up their confident and V. versa with the ones who don’t get the “hot” word. It is such a tragedy that girls don’t see the beauty in them unless someone tells them they do so. Our society plays a great roll in this. People don’t see the pretty anymore. Everyone wants to see the curves and the perfect body. I think that each girl is gourges in her own way and got the beauty inside her.

The article “Dadbod: A New Word for a Timeless Physique” by Spencer Kornhaber was a very discus sable essay. I personally have never heard of this term before but apparently it is very famous and often used now days. This term gave men another reason to be very proud of how they look and how people look at them while on the other hand women are the ones that has to be a Barbie like and perfectly shaped. It gives men who don’t have the Body shape a positive confident of themselves. This term is making a not perfectly shaped men more accepted to society and tells them to be proud of the way they look. 

Death of Pretty and Dadbod

In the article “The Death of Pretty” Pat Archbold defines being pretty is beauty and innocence and that being hot is “consumable”. What he was basically saying is that if a woman is innocent then men will want to protect her but if she’s hot then men will just want to use her. Just because a woman dresses a certain way that categorizes her as “hot”, doesn’t mean that she doesn’t deserve the same respect as a “pretty” woman. The way a woman dresses shouldn’t define is she’s innocent or not and it’s honestly no one’s business if she is or not. Men should stop assuming that the way we dress is for them because most of the time it’s not. Women dress the way they do because they want to express themselves and be confident in their own body, whether they dress to be “pretty” or “hot”.

The article “Dadbod: A New Word for a Timeless Physique” by Spencer Kornhaber was really interesting. I’ve seen the term “Dadbod” on social media before but I never really paid attention or looked into it. I think the term “Dadbod” is a form of body positivity for men with these types of bodies. Kornhaber says that “a lot of men feel liberated” by this term. This is a great way for men to feel good in their bodies and not ashamed because they don’t have a six pack. Just how women are starting to feel more confident in their bodies, it’s also great that men should start feeling the same way.

LOVE YOURSELF

After reading the two articles, I have came to the conclusion that most men are more accepting of their insecurities than women. Most men also hold themselves to their own standards while most women hold themselves to the standards of others.
 In "Death of Pretty", Pat Archbold, the author, defines pretty as a combination of beauty and innocence, but the qualities are often sacrificed because women are wanting to be "hot". This sacrifice is primarily due to lust for attention from guys. By being hot, women do not receive admirable qualities from a man that they would receive if they were pretty.
 The author of the article, "Dadbod: A New Word For a Timeless Physique", defines the term,
dadbod, and how men are accepting to the new expression of their physique. They are optimistic about the term "dadbod" stating that they are better for cuddling and enjoy eating what they want. This goes to show that we should accept ourselves more rather than alter ourselves for conformity of society.
 Women shouldn't wear less clothes to appeal to a particular man/woman and a man should not have to go to the gym more to impress a woman. Be yourself. Love yourself. If you do not love yourself, then no one will.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

While "Dad Bod" and "The Death of Pretty" both deal with the subject of gender roles and the emerging terminology used to define them the two articles could not be more different.  "Dad Bod" reads as a realistic assessment of a term now used in popular culture and recognizes the likely passing nature of it.  The writing rings true because the assumptions that are made are valid and backed up by years of forward movement in popular culture. So called "Dad Bods" are clearly a fad, as is the terminology.  "Death of Pretty" laments the loss of something that was not only poorly defined but never truly lost.  Archbold writes "By nature, when men see [beauty and innocence] in women it brings out their better qualities. That special combination of beauty and innocence, the pretty inspires men to protect and defend it." Her claim that innocence and beauty have been lost is not nearly as valid as she supposes it to be--I would wager that for the entirety of human existence "hotness" has been clearly delineated from "pretty" and striven for by certain women in certain situations.  Popular culture has, without a doubt, changed with time--yet the idea that she holds, a combination of beauty and innocence, is a fad that coexisted with "hotness".  Archbold thinks of pretty the way that fat idiots think of Dad bods.  Neither are real things to be striven for, merely fictions perpetuated by a popular culture that repeatedly cycles itself.  I take particular exception to Archbold's use of Grease as an extended metaphor for this supposed loss of innocence.  Grease was and is, at its core, a truly terrible movie.  The story makes no sense! ONJ just gives up who she is and then a car flies into the sky? And everyone is happy? Pretty never died. Pretty was never replaced with Hot. Both have coexisted for a long time and, just like Dad bods, the terminology will eventually die. Men want to feel better about being shitty people and women want to be what men desire. Sure, Danny Zuko got the girl and flew off in a magic car. But Danny Zuko was an asshole who grew up and has a Dad bod now.

The Death of Pretty and Rise of the Dadbod

"The Death of Pretty" by Pat Archbold briefly describes how she, the author, defines pretty and how no one wants to be pretty but hot. "Dadbod: A New Word for a Timeless Physique" by Spencer Kornhaber is about how a type of physique that has been around forever has been given a hip new name. Each article is about the physical appearance, one for females and the other for males. Reading both articles, it is clear that there is a double standard between what is expected of girls and what is expected of guys. In Kornhaber's article, he quotes from a New York Times headline, "It's hip to be round," yet it is expected of women to have a certain look as described in Archbolds' "The Death of Pretty". Pretty is "a combination of beauty and innocence" which is being replaced by "hotness". So while the "dadbod" promotes what could be considered a natural body type for males, women "face pressure toward Barbie-doll sculpting (Kornhaber 3)."

What Kornhaber says is that the "dadbod" has always existed and that it is not this hot new thing that social media portrays it to be. Kornhaber also finds the term "dadbod" as "turn[ing] the tables." Now like skinny women who are called "bones" or "anorexic" and obese women who are called "fat" or "whale", men now have a "name" that some may think is great and other's not so much. Having a "dadbod", the word alone makes me think of dad's with big bellies and beer-stained t-shirts. While it may be positive to some people to be "proudly pudgy", the word "dadbod" is just another word to body-shame people.

The way we look at things

In "dadbod" essay it talks about how people have taken this "dadbod" thing so proudly when actually its not something you should be proud at. It just means that now you are in a group of people who are not shaped, they drink a lot on weekends, etc, etc.
 In the second essay, what i got from that one is that beauty and innocence are more important than being hot. Which I personally agree on, to me being "hot" is not something important because its not going to last forever. Beauty of person's heart is what means more than her being hot and innocence is type of jewelry which makes a woman more attractive.
In the last one it talks about how google is biased in some matters. I personally don't think google should have any right to be biased, it doesn't matter if it is right or wrong. What basically I am trying to say is that if something is right to me, it may not be right to other people. Maybe for google , for half of this world including me, that the guy which they used as example deserves being compare to poop but for some people its wrong. So basically as being a search engine it shouldn't be biased, but it is biased.
I think in all three of these essay it is trying to say everything can be looked in different way, it just depends on us how we look at it.

The "Dadbod"/ The Death of Pretty

Guys who drink beer, like unhealthy food, and aren't too worried about their figure finally have a way to label their body type, The "Dadbod." The word "Dadbod" might be trending but the body style isn't. This body style has always been around but not publicized much compared to toner figures. We can all agree that the "Dadbod" isn't made of long evening trips to the gym however, the "Dadbod" is on the rise because it is easy to maintain and has grown to be more acceptable in society. No, the "Dadbod" isn't a big deal, it's for guys like myself to have a classification for their own body type.

In my book, pretty and hot have two different definitions. In today's society, most of the time whenever someone is referred to as hot, they are being judged off of their physical appearance. The physical appearance is something that can change at any given moment, and over time. In the modern era, there are some women that prefer being called hot and others prefer pretty. In order to label a girl pretty, I have to take time to learn about them and find their inner qualities, something that goes beyond appearance.