It's about making women have low self esteem and always willing to change ourselves to meet expectations. It makes it easier to get us to submit in other ways.

Being comfortable with one's self is attractive

Someone happy with who they are and what they have doesn't make as many purchases. In a capitalistic society, that's unacceptable.

I feel like that's some serious question?

It is like that coz some wants profits.

It is not enough to sell beauty products, as once achieved, income could drop - You need to pursuit another beauty. And poof, we have a fashion.

Nah, it was still not enough, so, they started to make You feel ugly, so spend more. Follow all these photoshopped ai enhanced pictures from ads everywhere, unreachable standard. Spend.

Fuck it, ignore standard, go get beauty in self from self (whatever that mean, rarely someone can judge self as "good enough" or "damn pretty enough").

how else can we sell all these beauty products

Beauty standards are driven by what sells the most products

Thank you. As a plus-sized girl, this is something that I really needed to see tonight. I've been feeling very ugly & disgusting because of my weight.

The logical conclusion of this is that only men are beautiful

For some reason this reminded me of the foot binding stuff in the Benedict Wong Marco Polo series, which is legit some of the most uncomfortable scenes in TV ever.

The only good thing my father taught me was to never have a type.

Creating demand is a centerpiece of a Western world since about Edward Bernays.

I feel more like I got close to what I'd choose, just never quite to the point I couldn't do better, if that makes sense? I'm tall for a girl, 5'9" but would have liked to be one inch taller, in my legs. Thin but would like to be thinner. Pretty happy with my hair, actually, except for the color. Loose curls are what I'd choose, and are what I have. Never had a waist, and yes did want one, bone structure thing, but "elongated athletic" is a body type I like, I don't care that much.

All my hangups relate to weight. I've been thinner but never actually felt like it wouldn't look better to be even thinner, which I realize makes no sense but is still how I feel.

Agree a lot of it is created by commercial interests trying to sell things.

A less interesting explanation is that everyone's comparing themselves to the mean. If any attribute is too different, it needs correcting. Weight, skin tone, number of fingers and toes, etc.

Be who you are, everyone else is taken.

If you take a mathematical average of all women or all men, you get someone out that is quite attractive. A few parameters are deemed more beautiful at the extremes, but if you are: neither overweight nor starving, have slightly wavy hair, are of medium height, have averaged away all illnesses... you're starting from a good place.

I am trans, and my goal is to look as trans as possible. Take that society!

Women with brown/black hair are encouraged to dye their hair to look more "unique".

Women with blonde hair are encouraged to dye their hair to avoid blonde jokes.

Women with red hair are encouraged to dye their hair to avoid ginger jokes.

Teaching children to be anything other than they are

"You can never please
Ever-y-body In This World!" The Shaggs