Are only pretty people
good? Being an aunt of two young nephews I watch a lot of Disney movies. So as I
was reading the Pernicks article there was a Disney movie playing in the
background and it got me to think. In most of the Disney movies there is a main
character, the good pretty character with all their good moral fibers. And then
there is the bad, evil, ugly character who wants nothing more than to destroy the
pretty characters world. Is this what we are teaching the younger generation? That
to be good and moral and right you have to be beautiful? Yes Disney can go on and
say that beauty is what is underneath but, all their “hero” characters are
attractive. The Pernicks article argues that with eugenics we can create a
beautiful society. That when we create beautiful people we are also creating a
culture that is more moral and “good”. it
doesn’t matter what you look like you still can be moral and good but, then why
does the entertainment world keeps telling us that to be good, moral and popular you have
to look beautiful.
-Sarah Fiorella
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