Many people seem to be too concerned of their body images
nowadays because they are getting too caught up with society’s standards and
these standards have been causing a variety of effects to the people. These effects
are mostly negative and degrading to those who are incapable of making their
body image fit the standards of society.
These standards can aid a person in
making himself / herself look good, but it is sometimes too much; too much
artificiality that people, especially women conform to it in an abusive way.
They tend to skip meals or eat meals that aren’t even considered as meals, they
inject or drink whatever they can to enlarge or decrease the size of specific parts
on their bodies, and they apply too much make-up to make their faces look
perfect or flawless.
If you can observe, women nowadays tend to have dark thick
brows and they call it, “eyebrows on fleek”. This has become a trend and if you
don’t have this type of brows, you’ll end up getting insecure unless you really
don’t care or if you have blessed thick brows. Another example would be the “women
big breasts and butts are more attractive” issue where people debate that women
with smaller breasts and butts are less attractive than women with big ones. Issues
like these are getting out of hand for children as young as 9 are already
becoming alarmed of their own body image. This is basically the reason why looking
“in” has become a requirement to everyone nowadays may you be a child, a
teenager, an adult or even an elderly. People tend to be so judgmental and particular
when it comes to physical appearances and this generation is composed of these
types of people.
They are not aware that these social standards have been one
of the major reasons that causes people to have trust issues. People,
especially the plus sizes will always think that they are not enough or they
are not good looking because they have this type of body image. The ideals of
the society are skinny women with large breasts and butts and also muscular men
with abs who can flaunt their body without shame.
Such a pity these people are experiencing; they have fooled
themselves to do stupid things that they think would make them feel happy and satisfied
well in fact they have lead themselves to a situation where they can never be
contented with how they look and they have exposed themselves to risks that can
endanger their lives.
Body image is our OWN mental perception of our OWN body. It
is our OWN body, so why rely on other people’s opinions about it when you know
that YOUR body is NOT THEIRS?
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