#but also that i was so annoyed in that ep bc curatel wasted betty's time

[ladysophiebeckett]

#It's giving fairy tale and I love it#Cause you have this marginalized women who for one reason or another don't fit the beauty standards feeling resentment#But not going against the canon belief that to be valuable and loved you gotta be pretty and to win in life you need beauty#The same damning rule they are accepting of!#And then there is other women who do fit the beauty standards like Marcela or Patricia but they're mean and proud and rude and etc#And they are alone (at the end of the telenovela but I do love redemption)#And then there's Betty#The most marginalized and the most hurt of all the “ugly” women and men shown in the soap#And she is not perfect yes#But she is the one that never relied on her beauty or Social stratum for love or self accomplishment#Yes she believed herself ugly and yes she marginalized herself too and yes she believed that those with beauty and money belonged#To a totally different world she could never live in#But she never played by those rules#And she never believed it fair#And for as hard as it was she always believed love should not depend on the looks of people#And when she had the beauty (and the money or at least the social recognition) she did not rely on them#She didn't become proud and didn't start despising her friends

Watching the episode (94th) where the cuartel prompts Berta to get the surgical procedure to have a hot bod and it's Betty and Inesita the only ones having reasonable and smart takes as to why she shouldn't do it (and get the car her husband told her to get instead) but in the end she does get the procedure because insecurities and ego and vanity and coaxing and whatnot. And then they tell Betty how she's ingenuous for believing a man can love you no matter your looks. And then it's BETTY who ends up looking prettier without having undergone any surgeries, but most importantly, Armando, the womanizer who was always surrounded by models and who only chased the most beautiful women, falls in love with her, out of all the ordinary and even undeniably unattractive women he must have met in his lifetime.