Outside Reading

While doing my outside reading the past week, I realized just how much I love reading. But I also realized how much I analyze what I am reading now. Throughout Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, I noticed the major themes such as Societal beliefs versus one's own beliefs. Sayuri, being a geisha and a woman, is subject to a great many rules she has to abide by in how she dresses and how she behaves. Geisha must walk, talk, sit, eat, and even sleep in certain ways. Everything is to attract the male attention. I found a great many parallels to this and our current society. Woman are still meant to be seen as beautiful constantly. Even high school boys get wierded out when girls show up to school in sweats with no makeup, even though they do it every day. Also, take the fashion industry; the fashion industry is a multi billion dollar industry that is meant to make woman more attractive to men, and to tell men what they should find attractive. It doesn't matter that some woman just like fashion because they like to look nice. Woman subconciously crave male/female attention. Societal beliefs may change over time, but the principal ideas remain carved in stone.