the moment you start feeling ugly as a woman you need to hit up a local suburban walmart and take a good hard look at the average woman to realize an average woman is not serving curated algorithmic beauty and aesthetic
Dealing with beauty standards is rough, and it can really negatively affect/destroy your self-esteem. (Speaking from ongoing experience…) So, I say this with respect and understanding: this is an odd take.
If I did this, am I meant to assume that the women at Walmart do not care about beauty standards? If not, what is the thing that’s supposed to make me feel better? Should I assume by looking at them that they don’t stress about their appearance in the same way that I do (and so they also must not care about beauty standards—and certainly not the ones that occupy me, as a younger, relatively hotter [perhaps] woman)?
What makes you think that the girls and women at Walmart are not subject to the same pressures that you (and I) are, and that they don’t feel the same shame you (and I) do?
This just seems like a bad way for a person to feel better about themselves. When we make these sorts of assumptions, consciously or not, we’re feeding into the same toxicity that makes us feel bad about ourselves.
it’s more about the fact that the average woman does not have access to intensive costly beauty procedures and treatments or surgeries that require continual and lifelong upkeep like your average woman is still subject to beauty standards and shame associated with them but she’s not as likely or as easily able to access things an influencer may.
