People complain that the media promotes unrealistic beauty standards but what I’m realizing now (due to research for my topic) is that so do we. This week I was on Instagram and I came across a post (that was posted by a female) which said that “big” girls should not wear choker necklaces because they won’t look good on them. WHAT!? WHY?! Im not sure about everyone else but I can’t stand it when people create boundaries for someone based on their appearance. We on our own create beauty standards everyday. On Instagram there are pages dedicated to people with thigh gaps or people covered in tattoos and each page has communities of people commenting on how this particular aspect is beautiful. Then you have other people posting negative comments that say that those different aspects are not beautiful. So who is correct? I have heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but what does that really mean when it comes to beauty standards. To me beautiful (when it comes to a person) is when someone just owns who they are but for someone else that word beautiful can relate to something totally different. I guess i don’t have a problem with a person having a different perception of beauty then I do but rather the discrimination against people who don’t meet their beauty standards (or any standard for that matter). For example on the topic of make up and beauty. There are some that believe that wearing make up is being fake . Then you have those people that love make up and consider it art. Within these two different thoughts there is a created beauty standard. The problem arises when either side speaks negatively about the other. Who is correct? Who will really care at the end of the day? Thinking about this makes me wonder about my paper and the stakeholders section. The way I see it is that we are all stakeholders but have different stakes when it comes to this topic but how do I conceptualize this.
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