Society shames both women and men into thinking we are too fat, too thin, too big, too small, too pretty, too ugly, too short, or too tall. But it's important to see that no one will ever fit the photoshop model and how it's much more important to learn to love what you have. Stated in “Inscribing Gender on the Body”, “these practices (beauty practices of the 19th century) made women faint, appear frail, dependent, and passive-responses to 19th century notions of middle class femininity.” It started in the Victorian era with corsets that restricted their breathing and crushed their stomachs all because of the patriarchy and male supremacy that's been sticking around like sap oozing out of a tree. That has led up into the 19th century in the way women want to be see as.
But with fashion and media showing women with a small waist and big breasts, it changes society's perceptions of how women “should” look like. These perceptions are like “the norms” that not all people can live up to, and shouldn't have too. These norms are shown everywhere in the Media and give people body positivity issues because they are told they aren't good enough. Men have he same issues with body positivity regarding what is portrayed in the Media. Men are seen as all muscular, or nerdy and small, and it's not a healthy way to categorize anyone into fitting stereotypes. Both women and men are told that average sized bodies are fat and unhealthy. The Media also supports malnourished models claiming that beauty is all about size, but not acknowledges that anorexia as an eating disorder is a serious, treatable problem.
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