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Oversexualization Is Not Feminine Empowerment
We’re just looking for an excuse to make it not look so bad.
Last week, I finally read a book that has been going viral for months on all social media: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I was super excited to read it because it has really good reviews on Goodreads, and everyone said so many positive things about this story and how it represented female empowerment during World War II.
I thought I would read a book about how certain women decided to participate in the war above feminine standards or how some stayed to fight for their lands.
However, it was not quite like that.
The book was about two sisters. One of them was a rebel, and the other a respectable housewife. The rebel girl wanted to fight in the war and be someone of honor who left a legacy. The other wanted to remain a respectable woman who would wait for her husband.
The problem was that the “rebel” girl who decided to fight was described and represented as an “extremely beautiful” woman with “excellent attributes” throughout the whole book. Despite her strength and intelligence, every achievement was because “she was beautiful, and that’s why the Nazis let her do anything.” The author added a man she was in love with, so in the end, her whole struggle came…
