"Brown Eyes are Boring"

          The other day I asked my brown-eyes South Asian friend about her green coloured contact lenses. She's been wearing them ever since the beginning of high school and is used to having them on, but yet she complains often about their discomfort. "Why not just leave them out for one day and wear your glasses instead?" I asked her. She rolled her eyes and sighed, "Because brown eyes are, like, so boring."

          I was a little confused about her reply because I don't see how eyes can be boring. I can imagine a boring movie, a boring book, even a "boring" outfit, but eyes? I don't get it. If a beautiful woman walks into a room with her sunglasses on, will you not notice? If she takes those sunglasses off and reveals two big brown eyes, will you yawn and suddenly look away?

Does Kerry Washington's face actually bore you?

Does Monica Belluci's eyes put you to sleep?

Or the stunning Zhang Ziyi's?

Or this beautiful picture of a young Madhuri Dixit?

I think we can all agree that brown is just as beautiful as any other eye colour.

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Is Paris Hilton Your Role Model?

                Growing up, I can’t think of any women that I admired more than…*looks down with shame*…the Spice Girls. Now that I think back, I have no idea why I was so desirous of their skimpy clothes and mountain-high platforms. The only explanation that I can think of is society’s blowing up of the music group’s relevance. Girls of course want to emulate women who are talked about, paid extraordinary well and, most importantly, able to stand out in this world of important men. So the questions remain: who are the women that Western society chooses to stand out and stand up as role models? Who is often recognized and who is always ignored? Who is presented to young girls on television, radio and newspapers?

                A quick look on Facebook will give you the sad answer to those questions. Margaret Atwood, an important feminist author, has close to 40,000 fans. Kim Kardashian (contribution to mankind unknown) has close to 5,000,000. Megan Fox, star of two movies about alien cars, has close to a staggering 22,000,000! It seems that a woman’s worthiness of recognition falls on a hierarchy of “sexiness” and not real, tangible achievements. It’s not about who deserves to be recognized; it’s about who looks best on the cover of a magazine, frolicking on the beach in a swimsuit.

                You really can’t blame the young girls these days who pose in their underwear for pictures that they post online for any males to gawk at. It really is our fault for assuring them that their asses and their tits define their relevance. The longer we keep bowing down to the types of Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, and whoever comes tomorrow; our girls will want to emulate them. Of course, many will grow up, look back and laugh at their old role models (like I’m doing right now), but, be aware, many will give up their hopes of respectable careers for the search of shallow and temporal beauty.    

Inspiring Quotes

I do not wish them (women) to have power over men, but over themselves.  – Mary Wollstonecraft

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.  – Anaïs Nin

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I am beautiful as I am.  I am the shape that was gifted.  My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager.  My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's.  For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived.  – Cindy Olsen

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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.  – Claudette Colbert

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I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.  – Alanis Morissette

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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.  – Lucretia Mott

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Women belong in the house... and the Senate.  – Unknown

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.  We're not inherently anything but human.  – Robin Morgan

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.  – Margaret Mead

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Tomboys are an assertion of reality, of practicality.  Forced femininity is a waste of energy and resources, and therefore of oneself.  Live to live.  – Morgan Torva

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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

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The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse.  Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor.  – Wilma Scott Heide

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We have to have faith in ourselves.  I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs.  And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck. – Cynthia Heimel

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I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. – Elaine Boosler