Classically Abby - June 15, 2021


The TRUTH About Beauty Standards - I'm TIRED Of Hearing How BAD They ALL ARE

Topics
good beauty standards body types
Hosted by
Abby Shapiro
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Length

8 minutes

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181.32

Word count

1,617

Sentence count

94

Harmful content

Misogyny

15

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Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

8

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In this episode, I talk about the difference between good beauty standards and bad beauty standards, and why we should keep them in place. I also talk about why it's important to keep beauty standards in place and why they are a good thing.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello classic crew and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about beauty
00:00:05.660 standards. I've been thinking a lot about beauty standards lately because there is this sort of
00:00:16.180 swing towards saying beauty standards are all bad and today I want to talk about the difference
00:00:22.200 between good beauty standards and bad beauty standards. I do believe that there are some
00:00:27.880 beauty standards that aren't great but I also believe that there are some beauty standards
00:00:32.040 that are good and I think that we should kind of keep those intact. So today I'm really excited to
00:00:36.960 share my thoughts on this with you. I would love if you would consider subscribing to my Substack
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00:01:17.120 but I'm excited to get into today's topic so let's get into it. So let's start by talking about some
00:01:22.400 good beauty standards. Those include health, keeping a good body weight, washing up and keeping
00:01:29.400 yourself clean, putting on a little bit of makeup, styling your hair, the sort of stuff that does make
00:01:35.000 you feel better both emotionally and physically. Those are good beauty standards. It's good for us
00:01:40.840 to say that a woman who is healthy and fit is more attractive than a woman who does not take care of 1.00
00:01:47.160 herself and is not exercising and is not eating healthy. That's a very important beauty standard.
00:01:53.220 It's the beauty standard that lets us know that okay not only am I not being good to my body but
00:01:59.340 it's also less attractive. And that's actually not a terrible thing to link those two things right?
00:02:04.540 So it's better for us to look at the woman who is healthy and who eats well and who exercises and say
00:02:10.700 that woman is beautiful than for us to look at a woman who is massively overweight or massively 1.00
00:02:16.960 underweight and say well that's beautiful. Healthy and attractive should go hand in hand and that's
00:02:23.420 a really good beauty standard. In the same way that choosing your outfits well, not saying they have
00:02:29.620 to be expensive. I've said this many times on my channel. You do not have to pay a lot of money to
00:02:33.360 look good. You can shop at thrift stores and find great pieces and you'll still look really
00:02:37.980 attractive. But putting in the time to think about your outfit, putting in the time to do a little
00:02:42.520 bit of makeup, putting in the time to do your hair, these are things that are important forms of self
00:02:47.680 care because they show that you are willing to take the time for yourself and also when you go out
00:02:53.740 into the world you're putting out a good first impression. That is a good beauty standard saying that
00:02:59.120 the woman who puts in more effort is more attractive and the woman who takes care of herself is more 0.98
00:03:05.400 attractive versus the woman who never brushes her hair, never washes up because that woman probably 1.00
00:03:11.340 isn't healthy emotionally and she's showing it through the way that she presents herself. So it's good
00:03:18.020 to have these kinds of beauty standards, right? It really just shows health internally and externally
00:03:23.700 is an attractive quality as opposed to not taking care of yourself which is less attractive. So that's
00:03:30.600 something I feel very strongly about, that beauty standards being linked with health is a great
00:03:35.360 thing. Here's where bad beauty standards come in. Nose shape, body types, breast size, cellulite, 1.00
00:03:44.500 mom bods. These are the things that are bad beauty standards. Saying that all women have to have the same 1.00
00:03:51.820 nose or all women have to have the same body type. Those are things that you can't change. Yes, you can fix 1.00
00:03:59.160 those things with plastic surgery, but that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about
00:04:03.600 without any medical intervention, you can't change the shape of your nose. You can't change your body
00:04:10.340 type. You can't change that you have cellulite. No matter how many products will tell you that you can,
00:04:15.780 you can't. So that's stuff I actually love seeing on the internet is positivity about the things about
00:04:22.000 ourselves that we can't change. Now I think that it's really important as somebody who has a very
00:04:27.700 specific nose. I think it's very important for us to have really open minds about what a beautiful
00:04:34.540 nose can look like, right? Because in Western society, now we accept small button noses as 0.76
00:04:41.540 something beautiful. But throughout history, what was a beautiful nose changed. So now, in today's day
00:04:48.320 and age, I think it's probably better for us to think about beauty standards and say, I don't want my
00:04:52.700 nose to look like everyone else's nose. I'm okay with my nose looking different because a lot of
00:04:58.220 different noses can look great. I also think that with body types, we shouldn't have a specific body
00:05:03.360 type that is the standard of beauty. Because again, throughout history, the ideal body type has
00:05:09.600 changed. Even 20 years ago, when I was growing up, I thought that the ideal body type was a very thin,
00:05:16.880 very small framed woman. And nowadays, the ideal body type would be considered in my time as a child, 1.00
00:05:23.900 a pear shape, which is a much bigger bottom half that's very developed and muscular, and a little
00:05:30.120 bit of a smaller upper half. But again, throughout history, body types have changed, and the beauty 0.81
00:05:36.840 standard for what is the best body type has changed. So I think it's better for us to say, okay,
00:05:41.740 a lot of different kinds of body types can be beautiful. The healthiest version of all those
00:05:47.740 body types is what's beautiful. Now, I'm not saying someone who is severely obese or severely underweight.
00:05:53.600 Those aren't body types. Those are health conditions. I'm talking about the different body types that we
00:06:00.520 all have. Curvy, very thin, tall, short, bigger boobs, smaller boobs, stuff like that. Those are things 0.75
00:06:08.140 about us that are different, and that's good. It's good to have variety. Another beauty standard that's
00:06:13.380 just not realistic is cellulite. Getting rid of cellulite altogether. So many women have cellulite. 1.00
00:06:20.260 The vast majority of women have cellulite. And because of, you know, Photoshop and all these different 1.00
00:06:27.400 things online, you can really make it look like nobody has any bumps or cellulite at all, when that's
00:06:34.220 just not the case. Many, many women do have cellulite. So I think it's good for us to say,
00:06:39.680 hey, this is normal. Stretch marks is another one. Stretch marks is something that so many of us have.
00:06:45.180 I know that I do. And that's just part of who you are. And it has nothing to do with health or fitness.
00:06:52.500 It's just part of your genetics. And I mentioned a mom bod because when women have children, your body 1.00
00:06:59.200 changes. And not having to do with gaining weight or losing weight. I'm talking about just the fact
00:07:04.760 that the muscles in your abdomen change. And when you get bloated, it's going to show a lot more
00:07:11.600 after you've had a baby than before. And that's totally normal and something that we should accept
00:07:17.160 as a part of being a woman. So how do we deal with bad beauty standards? The beauty standards that 0.99
00:07:24.400 we should change and that we should make normal, right? The idea that we all have stretch marks,
00:07:29.420 that we all have cellulite, that we all have different body types or different noses. I think
00:07:33.880 it just comes down to seeing it more. When you see beautiful women with different noses or a beautiful 0.99
00:07:40.060 woman with a different body type than kind of what's typical for the time as being the ideal, 0.99
00:07:46.800 that is a very good thing. And it makes people realize that this is all good. But I also want to make
00:07:53.580 clear that it's okay to have different preferences when it comes to what you are attracted to. And so
00:07:59.880 even though I think that we should have a wide array of noses that we think are beautiful or a wide
00:08:05.080 array of body types, for specific men, certain body types are just going to be more their type. And
00:08:10.660 that's okay. It's not a criticism of men if they are more attracted to one body type over another.
00:08:18.420 But overall, I think it's good for us to be able to look at different people and say not everyone
00:08:24.500 needs to look exactly the same. So that's my video for today. I'd love to know your thoughts on this
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