Why people find this particular topic interesting is that people are generally fascinated with monsters and freaks. It has probably happened to you once in your lifetime. When your walking down the street and you see something or someone so hideous or outrageously deformed, you cannot help but to keep looking. It is the same as when there is a car accident. On a physical level, the bearded lady is a truly bizarre phenomenon, but would it be that way if all women were capable of becoming like that? Say for instance that women, had they not shaved for about a month, could grow a beard as long and bushy as men on a regular basis, would we be so intrigued by it? No, we would be desensitized. Rather, we would be so used to it that most of us would consider it normal for women to have beards. In reality, most of our conceptions about what is weird or not is based on culture. Culture dictates everything. The more society agrees on the fact that women should look a certain way to be considered beautiful is a clear example of easily people can conform. If from now on, every major media entity promotes women with beards as the new standard of beauty, over a long enough time frame, it will become the new beauty.
Even with culture of today dictating what beauty is, these women are truly admirable. They risk ridicule and laughter every time they go outside. It takes courage beyond what most of us have to be able to live comfortably in their own bodies. It is commendable that there are still so many individuals out there who are willing to fight against the mass conformity and stand out as individuals. What is important is that most people today have lost a sense of being an individual means. We buy material goods of the same nature, having jobs that pay the same, in general doing things because that is what is considered right. These women teaches us a lesson that we should not soon forget: to be happy and proud of who you are and to do things that pleases you, not others.
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