A person is a reflection of their culture, of what they believe and how they live their lives. A bridge between the past and the future, between time and space and needs to try to keep them in harmony, less they become unbalanced. Not to be aware of the past and give it due consideration in the building of the future can distort the future. Neither is it wise to sacrifice your future because you choose to live in or as if you are in the past. One World One Human Race One Destiny (OWOHROD)
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
WOMEN AND ALOPECIA AND SOCIETAL OPPRESSION AND DISCRIMINATION. PART 2.
Men, like women, are prisoners of our societies, and are therefore positively and negatively impacted by societal myths and self-evident 'truths.' history, which contains both truths, lies and myths, and contemporary media, have conditioned men and women into what is the nature of the 'ideal man' and the 'ideal woman.'
And we, who constitute society, have, probably imperceptibly but definitely, been internalising and validating these notions by our actions. Thereby making the 'myth', probably the reality. Like real life mimicking fiction or, yes, 'myth', as it were.
And so have we come to give great importance to a woman's hair being or should be a thing of great beauty. Something which makes her fellow women jealous of her and which makes her most desired by men, if I might give effect to a bit of romanticism. And that is not all, a woman's hair can be like any of other her essential organs or features.
A woman losing her breast, for example, will or can have catastrophic impact not only on her physique, but also on her perception of who she is, what she does, e.g., for a living, and on her relationships with her partner, her family, friends, work colleagues and the world.
And it is probably the same for a woman who fears the loss of, or is losing her hair.
It can literally destroy her self-image, her self-confidence and her self-esteem. After which, not surprisingly, there could be little of her positive identity remaining.
To be continued.
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