The doll of society

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22/09/23, 6:00

"Women should be skinny, tall enough, possess a pale complexion and perfect-looking facial features. Men should be muscular, taller than girls, possess a fair complexion and sharp, perfect-looking facial features. 

If you don't accommodate to these things...the horror! There's something awfully wrong with you. You shall change it! Go on a strict diet - it does not matter if you are hungry -, cover your face with tons of make up - for who would want to see your pimples, scars or birth marks? They are preposterous!-, and if diet and make-up does not work...plastic surgery is the solution! 

Oh! Wouldn't you love to look like those gorgeous models? Look at them. They are the standard!"

But who said humans are supposed to look like some kind of plastic-dolls? Society did. Society has brainwashed us into thinking that we must look a certain way to be beautiful. That is why we sometimes feel ashamed of what we look like. We do not like our lips, eyes, nose, skin, hair, height, weight, wrinkles, scars, stretch marks...and the list goes on and on. 

We should stop being so hard on ourselves and others. We should embrace our "imperfections", as they call them, because those are what make us human. If we were born with them, if they are part of us, why should we try to change them?


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  1. Michelle Morataya23 de septiembre de 2023, 15:56

    You're totally right! Over time, the term "beauty privilege" has became popular and people (especilly teenagers) thinks that if you don't fit in the standars you're not pretty or handsome and that doesn't make sense because we are not robots to be a copy of someone else, we are different from each other and that's what makes us unique and irreplaceable. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Iliana Rauda H24 de septiembre de 2023, 19:10

    I feel like society has established beauty standards that we have to follow. If you don't follow them, you are considered ugly. The worst part of it is that social media has made us believe that perfection exists. You can see many "beautiful women who seem perfect" on social media, but most of the time they are using Photoshop, and people do not realize that they are fake.

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  3. Melanie Mejía24 de septiembre de 2023, 22:12

    When I was a teenager I received a lot of awful comments about my appereance. I've always been thin, but I guess not the "thin standard" they expected. Many years had to pass in order to feel a little confy with myself. It's still a struggle in my mind, but I'm working on it. Really good entry, Majito!

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  4. Madelin26 de septiembre de 2023, 8:31

    I totally agree with you, why do we have to change our "imperfections"?, what we have to do is learn to love ourselves and change for our happiness or for our health and not for the opinion of others. I know it’s easier said than done, but we have to work on it.

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