How much do you hate yourself physically?
Open your eyes to media and you immediately understand what the media deems to be attractive physically. What body types, colours and abilities are reflected in our wide range of media outlets. What we usually see; · White people (or predominately white features) · CIS people (identifying as the gender assigned at birth) · Thin people · Able bodied These then divide into how you can be attractive as a woman, and as a man. Some features like being tall are deemed attractive for a man to have but not a woman. In the same way having a high voice is supposed to be desirable in women but not in men. With all of these unwritten rules come expectations, entitlement and inherent body shaming. It’s seen that if you don’t have these qualities you must endeavour to get them or apologise for lacking them. Being happy isn’t good for the economy. If we were all happy it’d be pretty damn hard to sell us things. We buy things