Beauty Game

 

Beauty always has rules. It's a game. I resent the beauty game when I see it controlled by people who grab fortunes from it and don't care who they hurt. I hate it when I see i tmaking people so self-dissatisfied that they starve and deform and poision themselves. Most of the time I just play the game myself in a very small way, buying a new lipstick, feeling happy about a pretty new silk shirt.

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There's the ideal beauty of youth and health, which never really changes, and is always true. There's the ideal beauty of movie starts and advertising models, the beauty-game idea, which changes its rules all the time and from place to place, and is never entirely ture. And there's an ideal beauty that is harder to define or understand, because it occurs not just in the body but where the body is the spirit meet and define each other.

 

 

 

[출처] Ursula K. Le Gui, 'Dreams must explain themselves: The selelected non-fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin'