Summary Of Why Looks Are The Last Bastion Of Racial Discrimination

“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” former president of the United States Jimmy Carter stated. Is it really over? Or are we just deceiving ourselves for comfort in our so-called land of the free country? In, “Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination,” Deborah L. Rhode talks about the bias upon race, age, sex, and other matters. Rhode can teach readers about prejudice in our country for obesity, religion, and stereotype. The restaurant Hooters is well known that you must look a certain way to be even considered for an application. Part of the necessities for the job is your nose must not touch the wall, indicating your breasts are large and you are easily hired. According to Rhode, “Lawyers for Hooters argued that employees at the restaurant – who wear who wear tank tops and short shorts – are entertainers as much as servers.…” (12). Another example is the clothing store Hollister, which is infamous for having “perfect, beachy people.” The store has a secret drawer where it has two different applications; one states “Pretty Bettys,” and the other,
Women are discriminated because men or other females think we can’t handle what a man can handle, but they are wrong. Women are strong and outspoken; if anything we are stronger than man because we have a superior pain tolerance. Society will never accept that because people at a young age have learned that woman are supposed to be supported by their husbands, and be treated like a porcelain doll because we can’t handle a lot. “Just like racial or gender discrimination, discrimination based on irrelevant physical characteristics reinforces invidious stereotypes.…”