After reading about the beauty myth, I don't believe that the way men portray women and how women want to look will ever change. I also dont think that the beauty myth is all mans' fault. it seems that women gave in to this image and ran with it. It is the women that continue to get plastic surgery and become bolemic and anorexic in order to fit the "beauty" image. Yes of course all women want to be desirable, and men set that standard, but the definition of desirable varies with every man and for women to think they have to look a certain way in order to be beautiful is because of our own insecurities. Just like women feel they need to look a certain way in order to be accepted, I believe it is becoming the same way for men now too. They, too, need to be fit and handsome to be socially accepted.
I just found out about a year ago the Marilyn Monroe was a plus size model and she was very beautiful and desired. This proves my point that anyone can be beautiful and it is societies fault as a whole as to why there is a certain standard for beauty.
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