Arguments for the author’s major point
1) As a result of the “contrast Effect”, our self-concepts are built on thousands of comparisons.
a. Women are particularly susceptible to this effect. But as a matter of fact they take a double standard: an idealized standard of beauty in terms of physical attractiveness; a more mundane standard in terms of intelligence.
b. One who scores high on “public self-consciousness” judges his or her own appearancemore critically when self-aware. They tend to compare themselves exclusively