Who's Really To Blame For Society's Ridiculous Beauty Standards? Men Or Women?
We’ve heard it time and again, how women suffer from having to comply with impossible beauty standards in order for men to find them desirable. But if we take a look at recent trends, it’s difficult to say how they really appeal to men at all. In fact, many of these trends were made to appeal to other women.
Picture all the problematic, harmful trends that have come and gone in the last 30 years: waif-like figures and heroin chic in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, then, from the 2010s until now, the synthetic amalgamations of the waif-figure plus the “hard body” of the 1980s. While the former had many women and young girls starving and depriving themselves, the latter had influencers urging them to “just work hard at the gym” in order to obtain perfectly flat stomachs and thigh gaps, while at the same time having large boobs and butts (we all know, or should know, this look is greatly facilitated by plastic surgery).