Beauty has always been a weapon against women for centuries and centuries now.
Every century,decade and now ,every year, there’s a new standard of beauty.
We had an Era where “thick” women were what was in style , if you were skinny you were considered malnourished , too Bonny and just unattractive ,men would literally choose a curvier woman over a skinny one, thick women were considered more likely to bear kids / become mothers and better wives .
There was the Era of tall girls , that was when high heels were introduced , women were made to believe that they were more attractive if they were just a little bit taller , and heels could do that for you plus make your legs even look more slender . So every woman got a pair of heels or two
The Era of thick lips , women were taught how to make their lips look thicker by applying lipstick outside the lines of their lips to give the illusion of fuller /thicker lips
The Era of whiteness (still going on)
Women were made to believe that the lighter their skin the more beautiful they were , and till today men would literally choose a lighter skinned woman over her darker skinned sister
The Baby hair era, = having hair as sleek and beautiful as a baby’s was more attractive, so women especially Africans and Arabs were practically forced into straightening their hairs, so it would look more wavy and what not - thereby making them more attractive
The Era of skinny women- if you were skinny you were considered to have a body of a model , a goddess even , you were the standard of beauty, mothers would tell their daughters that no man wants a fat woman , 😒🤦🏾♀️, so women were yet again forced to start eating certain things and engage in certain activities, girls would starve themselves so they wouldn’t add any weight.
And now we are in a very messed up Time, where we have people who still want what they have been programmed to want and then we have the resistance 💁🏾 people who refuse to conform to patriarchy , people who are more self aware and conscious. It’s the real melting pot and it gets stirred a lot! .
Beauty becomes a weapon against women ,because you have media and some people around you constantly telling you how you’re supposed to look because the ability for you to have a successful relationship with people but especially men is based on how you look. Absolutely nothing to do with the state of your mind. Just how you look .
My problem is that we are basically being monetized and mentally played with .
For them it’s just another way of making money and for us it is stunting our mental and societal growth,it is very saddening.
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