Re: The Beauty Trap from Dear Alyne

I stumbled upon a video on Facebook, a shared video of a friend from Dear Alyne's page. It focuses on how we women do everything just to meet beauty standards, and this started years ago. Below is the video. 

I get her point.

But, how can we change something that is deeply embedded in how we live today? Plastic surgery companies, tanning salons, beauty salons, make up companies are all establishmentz that scream "YOU SHOULD TRY THIS TO MAKE YOU BE PRETTIER". And of course, media companies also partake in this problem since they scream "YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS TO BE ACCEPTED."

To be honest, I don't think we can achieve that goal of taking off the standards of beauty because it's not like the companies would shut down their businesses, since they just love to make profit from their teansformative assistance.

My point here is, it's not that easy to take it out of us. Some people patrionize these because they want to belong in a society that would accept their physical appearance and these companies are not helping, they just make us conform withthe general idea of beauty.

So I suggest we teach young kids instead to not rank people's beauty and to love and acccept the human body, whatever gene you may have.  LOVE YOURSELF AND THE NATURAL THINGS THAT YOU POSSESS. USE THE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHO YOU ARE.