Measuring Women's Worth by the Essay

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Without a doubt, a great deal of these insecurities are embedded in the modern American culture's obsession with women maintaining unhealthy, unrealistic body types. Women have been set up to fail by these expectations, which has ultimately served to keep them submissive and dependent on men.

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The bathroom scale is, for all intents and purposes, nothing more than an inanimate object - a machine. However the frustration, degradation and humiliation that it signifies for the modern American woman goes far beyond the nuts and bolts of its construction. The scale represents the measuring of a woman's worth by how much she weighs.
It furthermore perpetuates the notion that women should take up as little space as possible because they are 'lesser' people than men. Ultimately, it signifies the source of manipulation by the diet and food industries to keep their bank accounts big and their women small. Within this context, the bathroom scale is not just an object representing women and the American culture; it is a part of American culture that seeks to turn women into objects.

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