All about being « perfect »
So hard to obtain, yet so subjective... Beauty’s become an obsession in our society and a « must » as soon as we’re out of our mother’s womb. Are your legs shaped enough? Is you body perfectly fit? Is your hair long enough? Are you curves showing enough, though too much is ugly too? Are your eyebrows equal? Your feet small enough? Your tan dark enough? Your teeth white enough? I could go on but you understand the point. A society basically superficial. Lookism being now seen as « normal », discrimination based on beauty is such a regular thing to see now that people unsatisfied by their bodies actually limit themselves to their daily activities. The words « fat » and « thin » have been associated with the word « ugly » where is the actual middle?! 76% of girls wish to lose weight and have made it an obsession. Instagram has become an international business to sell our body. Young innocent girls constantly exposed to the « perfect » body of celebrities as Kylie Jenner or Kim K. We have generalised what we think we see in an universal criteria grid for us to look up for; beauty standards. One of the greatest sources of unsatisfaction for people. Boys thinking they’re not fit enough and taking steroids to be seen as « sexy » and girls getting injections to be « noticed ». I am not against plastic surgery, don’t get me wrong, but I’m against the fact of getting it for people other than for us. Physical appearance now is the greatest market and commercial for companies. Only 4% of girls actually think they are pretty... Our image never has been such an importance in community than now. We ask for more psychologists and therapists but in the end it’s us and ourselves who are the people on who we have to work on, we have to be the ones to understand it and make a change. We have to stop looking for the looks and likes we’ll get and start standing up for ourselves and start respecting ourselves and the value of our bodies. In the end, we are the judge on what we think of our image.