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Originally Posted by lurkette
To what extent do you find your standards of beauty influenced by the media? Like, really, when you think about it honestly?
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i try very hard to reject the media, just on principle. I'm sick of how we can have horrible things going on in the world and we are more concerned with what Britney shaved today.
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Originally Posted by lurkette
Men, do women judge themselves/each other more harshly than men do?
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unfortunately yes, but i don't think this is just women judging women more, i think society judged women harsher. it is socially acceptable for a guy to have a gut, it is not for a woman.
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Originally Posted by lurkette
What can be done to change the (IMHO dangerous) trend toward unattainable and unrealistic standards of beauty? I realize that some things are evolutionarily hard-wired, but most of our standards are socially constructed. How do we deconstruct them and rebuild them in a positive way?
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with pitch forks and torches!!! or maybe break the societal standards, we should stop focusing purely on appearance and rather on the person inside. we've got to realize that the people we are shown in the media are not the average and we should not expect women to look like that. there is nothing wrong with a wrinkle or a fold.
here is an old thread of mine that is related....
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=35824