Inner Beauty

What the heck is "inner beauty"? It sounds like some cosmetic term like Botox or Maxillofacial procedure or some such thing.

A much bandied-about term since the advent of beauty competitions, the very idea is laughable. Beauty pageants are meant to judge your peripheral pound of flesh, literally speaking but this elusive concept of "inner beauty" is considered de rigueur at the moment.

I am rather disappointed that the world chooses to be sexist even in this relatively New-Ageian aspect as well. Have you ever heard the term "inner beauty" being applied to a man? Imagine a man saying, "Yes I have a hairy chest but I have inner beauty!" Lol!! By denying (or attributing to) the poor man his inner beauty, we have condemned him to fate worse than hell...

Inner beauty sounds like something cooked up by some conniving chauvinists who continue to propagate the myth that women and beauty are like synonyms. To be a woman, either you have to have outer beauty or inner beauty. But a man can still be ugly and earn money... And to add injury to insult, he will probably be called "rugged" or "craggy". Like the female equivalent "homely" for "plain ugly".

However with regard to women, this term is doled out in spades without any compunction... I suspect that inner beauty is a consolation prize for those unfortunate souls who don't have outer beauty. And then again, even if you are exteriorly exquisite, you should insist that you have inner beauty...just to be politically correct and to be accepted in society.

What a laugh!