Sameera Reddy shares Struggles with Body Shaming, Bollywood’s Beauty Standards?
We need to remember that pop-culture beauty standard is impossible to achieve in real life. It is an ideal. And in case of women, we all know who sets the ideals.
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Skinny Shaming Is Just As Real As Fat Shaming. It Needs To Stop
Why do people feel entitled enough to pass comments on my body structure? I am not a product displayed at a shop that needs to be rated and I won’t let them make me feel so.
Dear Neighbourhood Aunty, My Future Doesn’t Depend On My Skin Colour
India’s obsession with fair skin tone is limitless. And the number of girls who have been the victim of this obsession is countless. The idea that fair skin is more attractive and superior was perpetuated and strongly reinforced by colonialism. And since then the society, Bollywood movies, television ads have left no stone unturned to constantly remind how bad it’s to have a dark skin tone.
Let’s Nullify The Beauty Standards And Embrace Ourselves
This incessant addiction with looking “beautiful”, has given serious mental health issues to many. Low self-esteem, lack of confidence, depression, and anxiety are common among those who are not happy with how they look.
Why Women Still Have A Love-Hate Relationship With Their Bodies
Many women have embraced their bodies, but have they stopped desiring stereotypically beautiful (read slim) bodies?
Unhappiness With Breast Size Could Be Costing Women Their Well-Being
A study also found that women who are unhappy with their breasts are far less likely to check them for changes.
The Temptation To Embrace No Shave November Is Real
Women themselves have internalised these standards to such an extent that we feel hideous if we simply the eyebrow and upper lip hair grow out. I guess the conditioning is too strong.
Underarm And Upper Lip Hair Fashionable Now, But Is It Empowering?
Feminists have always challenged the “restrictive beauty culture” of stilettos, sculpted brows, cosmetics and sexy lingerie and society’s preoccupation with perfectly air-brushed women’s bodies. But body hair seems to have become a fashion statement now.
Have Miss India Contestants Been Cloned This Year?
How are we to end the bias against dark complexion, curly hair, bigger waistline, and how they reduce women’s beauty to skin deep standards, if pageants continue to devalue them?
Jameela Jamil Is Right, Airbrushing Belongs In The Bin
We all know airbrushing of pictures creates unhealthy beauty goals for women. We know it affects women’s health in more ways than one, when they look at crease free skin with perfect tone and shapely figures of women and then look in the mirror. Yet, despite knowing everything, many women and men aren’t happy that […]
