You Know I Don’t Like Discourse Like “The media distorts our image of beauty” or “gives us impossible standards”

thepeacockangel:

thepeacockangel:

because it implies that women are supposed to be beautiful regardless and that it is reasonable to demand that all women conform to a standard of attractiveness so long as that standard is deemed “reasonable”

Like what’s important is that women are considered worthless when they don’t live up to certain standards of physical attractiveness, not how “reasonable” or “attainable” those standards are.  Having the standards at all is the problem

I don’t care how “average” you make your non-Barbie, there are little girls who are going to be really tall, really short, really fat, really skinny, with rare skin conditions, built like Barbie, built like Lamily, built like whatever, and it’s not fair to make the beauty standard “statistically average” any more than it is to have it be some tiny outlier group. all standards of beauty are impossible to live up to for someone so fuck beauty. Stop valuing beauty as a single ideal rather than a subjective quality