I was reading Lynn Peril's essay and there were some things that I found pretty persuasive and agreeable in it. In her essay "Pink Think," Lynn Peril talks about the widespread ideal femininity in today's society. She speaks against the standard of behavior that the society has set for being a 'proper female.' Pink Think, as she defined, is a set of ideas and attitudes ¦to which all women must aspire regardless of their age, race or body types. She claims that the society has, for a long time since our birth, has been pushing female to behave and think in a certain way that would make them a well-bred lady. Peril, first of all, expresses herself as a victim of that very femininity when she talks about how she had bristled when reading Jacque Mercer's How to Win a Beauty Contest (1960). Ever since then, she had been claiming aversions and negative attitudes to all things that were pink and girly. By exposing her aversion towards the femininity, she successfully develops a bridge towards the audience, which in this case would most likely be females in the society with the similar experience. Peril also creates pathos by giving an example that almost frustrates the audience to the point where they'd get angry, like the one in which she mentioned how Nancy Fleming answered to questions in the most feminist way that won her the title of Miss America 1961. Peril strongly disagrees with the Pink Think, which she thinks is an outdated culture which had no use at all to begin with.
Being a female and all, it was easy for me to understand her point of view and taking sides with her. In today's society, it is not only stereotyped but engraved in our heads that women should be behaving in a certain type of way and should be dressed in certain way to be considered women and get men's attention. However, who is to say that that is what women should ever need and want, to attract men? Like Peril argued Pink Think not only endangers women's social liberation abut also implants incorrect cultural mindset that women are only women when they act and think in a certain way. It might as well be a threat to our society of freedom!
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