More Than Beauty

More Than Beauty

A Story by Rafia Noor Purbita

Women are called mother. Women build up the civilization. The way soil nourishes all living beings, women nourish the creation.

But when we lose our own values, how can we be qualified to build up a new life?

Society teaches women to be tolerant, and they accept it. When we tolerate violence on us, how can we build up a strong coming generation who will raise voice to set up a corruptionless, free country?

The failure of our society is, we have objectified women as entertainment. So, women have learned to find their worth from their childhood in lipstick, bangles, beauty, tops, long hair, fair skin tone, attractive body. I shall never say maintaining beauty or fashion is a bad thing. This is obviously a part of self-growth. But 99% of our women try to improve and show off beauty and fashion sense to attract male attention rather than a personal growth mindset.

And a better trick to identify these girls is that, when they are at home, they will stay unorganized, dirty and will not maintain a proper daily fashion. But when they go out, they will dress themselves like an actress, especially where male gathering is high.

All these things I have seen in my surroundings, and every time I asked myself why most of the girls waste so much time, attention, effort to attract men and why they crave male attention so much.

Here I found several issues. When a girl is born, she learns her status depends on her beauty, number of proposals she gets, her attracting capabilities. Actually, we have formed the society like this. Women become trained like this from childhood. So instead of conducting research, our girls are putting on makeup and making reels.

The second major issue I found is identity crisis. From childhood to death, women are told life is meaningless and cursed if they cannot be someone’s wife and mother. But women are not told their life is more meaningless if they cannot be self-sufficient and learn how to be happy and proud with their own existence. It is an amazing experience to be someone’s wife, mother. But the problem is, it should never be the center of life, and meaning of life should never be dependent on this.

Actually, we have created psychological traps, have bounded our women in that, and restricted their self-growth.

If we stop determining the worth of our women on the scale of beauty, then nudity, reels, production of unproductive women will be less.

If we start valuing and rewarding our women on the scale of intellectual capability rather than their capability to invoke, for sure, soon number of our female scientists will be greater than number of weak mindset women. But for that, we must stop feeding all those psychological traps.

© 2025 Rafia Noor Purbita


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Added on July 27, 2025
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Rafia Noor Purbita
Rafia Noor Purbita

Bangladesh



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