with all the filters that make everyone look like 12 year olds.
Makes we wonder what the average person finds attractive these days....
Just like magazines were putting unrealistic expectations on us as youth, now social media has taken over and pushes all these aspects on young women.
I think it is worse than that, or perhaps it is that I am old. The magazines were relatively unrealistic through the choices of models, but a lot of those models were actual people, just an extreme of the population. What they are doing now id having people alter their own bodies digitally, pinching and enhancing this and that - yet they still have the mirror to contend with. Looking at all those pictures of yourself looking beautiful but then, having to stare at reality's reflection each morning and night. This is where the disconnection from the self comes in - it is a split personality between reality of oneself and the desired reality of what one manipulates oneself to be.
Some people got fitter during Covid - I wasn't one of them :)
I had to go to the store recently and get bigger jeans 😂😂 it was hard to accept for a moment, I have been the same size effortlessly since I was 16 years old...I still have room to grow tho before I feel like I should put down the chocolate.
"Looking at all those pictures of yourself looking beautiful but then, having to stare at reality's reflection each morning and night"
that's pretty accurate I just avoid the mirror and selfies😂 (just being silly...lol). I think part of it is also the pressure to project a cool image to society to be accepted with everyone rather than the ones that matters, that is unrealistic to begin with and the failure to deliver the desired results in a bad self image both physically and an illusion of weakness of character. I still think it's a result of environment that almost always blindly chooses superficial as better than wholesomeness and until we as a society learn to value character strengths in ourselves and others over looks or what others think, that trend is going to get worse because it's a vicious unfulfilling circle.