There's a very important distinction that lots of people miss the mark on between:
"Conventional beauty standards are subjective, bigoted, and can go fuck themselves”
versus
“Everyone who doesn't meet conventional beauty standards should just celebrate being UGLY”
Like...
If “celebrating ugliness” is the most liberating way you've found to reject beauty standards, power to you, but you’re still functioning within that same bigoted spectrum of accepted beauty. You’re still saying that some people are beautiful and others ARE UGLY, and even if you try to remove the inherently implied “beautiful people are worth more” from the equation, you’re still accepting the beauty standards as handed to you.
The objective really needs to be to deliberately and thoughtfully evaluate why we think of beauty vs ugliness the way we do, and why it matters, and IF it matters, and WHEN it matters, and then put in the work to undo what’s been done to us.
Undo the messages you’ve internalized.
Reveling in feeling like a gremlin or whatever can definitely feel powerful, and it feels active and fun, but it also takes work and doesn’t undo that you do, still, feel ugly. And society is still telling you (and everyone else) that ugliness is bad. And it will continue to do so FOREVER. And if you say out loud in a public space (like, hey, on social media), even in celebration, that you’re ugly-- then everyone who looks like you but hasn’t decided to “celebrate their ugliness” gets stabbed in the back by your celebration.
The much more lasting, and peaceful, and harmless route toward rejecting beauty standards is to actually truly reject them. And if you’re not there yet? Consider keeping your celebration of ugliness to yourself-- or keep it mindful, at the very least.
Be careful of who’s actually feeling your growing pains.