Judgment of appearance build cliques, groups, cause division among people

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

Since the late 1950s, sex icon Marilyn Monroe has been considered as one of the many goal appearance’s that young teenage girls everywhere are trying to achieve. Her voluptuous curves and seductive smile seemed to be most popular with society and the media. She lived a very successful life with hit movies, popular songs, and her notorious relationships.

What teenage girls sadly never seem to acknowledge was Monroe’s style of living. With three failed marriages, her mother being diagnosed as mentally ill and her death from an accidental overdose at such a young age, Monroe’s glamorous lifestyle of photo shoots and beauty only served as a cover-up to her actual life.

The phrase “never judge a book by its cover” is most commonly used in grade school as an attempt to prevent judgmental students. In reality, however, how often do we really use that phrase in our everyday lives?

“People like that [judgmental] are the reason why everybody always has the same cookie-cutter style outfits,” an MC senior said. “I’m sure that if people didn’t judge by appearance, but personality, half of our kids would be wearing completely different outfits.”

Nowadays, different cliques most commonly express themselves through their appearance. Examples include the dancers with their vibrant colors and tight fitting jeans, to surfers with their DC’s tank tops and worn out rainbows, to even the teachers with their button up suits and red ties. People everywhere can pick out someone by the way they look and, for the most time, guess correctly in what group they belong to.

But is that what it’s really about- being able to read a book by its cover so easily and know exactly what genre of literature it should be in?

“The sad part that people still don’t realize, is that we all still look the same,” the senior said. “We all still have hair, even if you cut it short and dye it black, we still have skin, even if you spray tan it or leave it pale, and we all still judge, even if you judge by appearance or personality.”

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