Today, feminism is a very acute and relevant topic, because there are practically no indifferent people around this phenomenon. Feminism is either zealously accepted or zealously hated and denied.
One of the central themes of feminism is the "loss" of beauty.
Modern feminism makes girls less beautiful. Can I argue with that?
Here, for example, a girl lives. This girl from year to year adheres to an endless diet, sheds endless kilograms. She rubs a million creams into her skin, burns all her hair out on her body, and modifies her face with makeup before going outside.
"She lives an ordinary female life."
She wants to be attractive and enjoy this society.
And then, suddenly, feminism comes to her and tells her: "Sister, are you really all right? Do you really want to spend your precious time on all this shit? Take a look around - relax and live a normal life."
And suddenly a wonderful world of normal life opens up for a girl.
This is a world where you can eat ordinary food and after that do not suffer from guilt.
This is a world where you can shave your hair only if it interferes with you personally, but not with your stairwell neighbors.
This is a world where you don’t have to hide your face behind a lot of cosmetics and learn, finally, to accept its shortcomings and value virtues.
In short, this girl suddenly discovers a life that becomes free from the rules and evaluations of society.
Happy? Women are now statistically more depressed/unhappy than ever before, and modern feminism probably played a major role in that by pushing women to expect things from life that they can't really get and also by playing the "accept yourself" card which led to the apparition of many atrocities such as the fat acceptance movement or shall I call "speed up your death movement".
Saying to Women/Men that it's okay to weight 1 Ton isn't happiness, it's madness that beauty standards helped to mitigate in the past ... and beauty comes from the concept of novelty (amongst other things), you can't be beautiful (statistically speaking) if you look the same as 3 billion other women, even though being beautiful isn't necessarily about having a specific architecture, behaviors also play a major role.
Classical feminism apart, modern feminism (third-fourth-wave of feminism) is a scourge that's is poisoning our society and the relation between men and women.
Thank thought for sharing your thoughts with us,
When were women generally happy? In this society it is almost impossible.
I'm talking about initially non-grotesque self-acceptance. But in society, everything is much more complicated.
Because if in this society beauty rules the ball, then it creates idols like Kim Kardashian. But beauty is not plastic surgery, liposuction, and an increase in one's priests. This is not a bunch of cosmetics and hair extensions to be "like everyone else" and hope to become an Instagram model.
But if a society forms a cult of simple self-acceptance, then it also becomes grotesque. Instead of a normal and comfortable diet, the lack of enthusiastic "tuning" of our body, we see the promotion of obesity, a complete lack of hygiene.
Did I talk about this? Did I call for this? I talked about banal self-love and freedom. In the most adequate sense.
Freedom is just an illusion (history clearly shows us why), people in the past had the freedom to do things legally even though those things were really wrong (from a moral standpoint). In the USA and probably many other countries, you don’t have the right “freedom” to kill yourself, because you don’t own your body, your body belong to the state (legal concept). Many people feel that they are free to do things … I was born like this … God made me like this … said the gay person … the pedophile … the serial killer … If the concept of freedom isn't paired with ethics or let's just say higher moral standards, then you will end up with someone like Kim Kardashian playing the role of a prophet in a society full of people with 3 billion genders. But who has the right to define what's right and wrong? that's another story, I guess.
Isn't Kim Kardashian just a reflection of what feminism brought to us? I really don't want to go down the abyss of logic VS feelings, but I think a bit of happiness is always better than not having even one shred of it. Women were happy when they didn't consider that men are the enemy, that life is unfair to women just because they don't have a higher level of testosterone. Rather than working toward becoming one of the most important pillars of our society, to acquire rights that suit their statue of queens, women were instead used as a political agenda/tool, a way to destabilize the natural order of things and deconstruct social norms.
Women are beautiful creatures, as someone who enjoys art, I’ve been always amazed to see how painters portrayed women through history (modern art garbage aside) … kind, beautiful, compassionate, witty, charming, faithful, smart, nurturing, and many others … all great qualities that modern feminism destroyed in women. Instead of strengthening the things that made women special in the first place, we have now unshaved overweight women with short blue hair trying to be as strong as men, trying to become rebels. We let feminism create retarded and twisted norms/standards for women, now women are paying the price. Modern feminism didn’t free women, they made them more miserable instead of more elegant and happier.
Garbage standards still exist, same as trough the entire history, but I can assure you that modern feminism isn't the answer when it comes to women's rights. Maybe this is just too much of an answer, but the thing is self-love and freedom is like a gate that led a lot of people into believing in the wrong things, thinking that everything is ok tend to paralyze people from trying to improve.
All in all, I still believe that the solution lays in the hands of women who can think critically, not men. Women need to stand up for themselves against the retarded waves of modern feminism.
Hey! Thank you again for sharing your thoughts with us, it's always a pleasure to discuss such things with people who can think critically.
SOrry but can t really agree with this. To each his own, in my opinion, if you re fine having hair on your body or going without makeup or whatever, good for you. Personally, I consider it grooming and I would not be happy not taking care of myself.
Losing weight, through eating right and/or exercise, isn t just about looking good, it s about being healthy. I wouldn t feel happy or comfortable weighing a hundred kilos.
But again, to each his own. If these ”empowered” women are happier without shaving or eating healthy or putting on makeup and nice clothes, I guess that s their choice, but personally I don t see it as a majorly feminist point.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
never apologize for not being stupid!
....encouraging stupid does never serves anyone...lololol
It seems that I did not speak, and even more so did not urge women to weigh one hundred kilograms. I talked about the choice of food, personal care in which a woman feels comfortable.
As you rightly said, if, for example, she weighs one hundred kilograms, then she, for example, will not feel comfortable. Under this condition, you need to change something. But if she ate a damn 500 calories a day, because, for example, her boyfriend love slender girls, then this is also not normal.
Did I really call for quitting sports, basic hygiene? Did you see it here? I do not think so. It is a matter of a woman’s comfortable diet and hygiene. If you do not want to wear long nails and do Brazilian hair removal, then do not.
But do not expose it in grotesque forms and see only a 200 - kilogram sick woman, completely overgrown with hair.
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