Beauty Standards and how you perceive and interact with them will be of a massive impact to your life and those you care about as well. Understanding it to a certain level will help you live well.
Problems
- Anorexia or Bulimia – Eating disorders
- Makeup
- Hair and Nails
- Plastic Surgery
Definition
- What is beauty?
- What are beauty standards?
- What does “realistic beauty standard” mean?
- Look Maxing – Maximizing your look and how specific people like specific looks. You can’t find a look that will please everyone. That’s ok.
Consequences
- Time – waste
- Money – waste
- Physical damage – harm to your body
- Physical risk – e.g. death
- Relationship damage –
Realistic Beauty Standards – These are beauty standards that are realistically attainable by the typical person. While there are super models or models that may be the most physically beautiful people of a population in which have put themselves in a position to be displayed in some visual medium. There may be even more beautiful people in a population that have not put themselves into that position.
What may sound really simple and silly sounding is also true. The most beautiful you can be is the most beautiful you can be. This relates to all methods. If you are going to apply that statement in the natural way, then it would mean that if you are washed up and clean, sufficiently physically fit to be healthy, and eat healthy, then your body is the is the most beautiful is can be naturally. You may style your hair and wear clean and classy clothing as well to improve the stylistic portion of your beauty.
Everything past this point to make yourself the most beautiful will be of purely artificial means and will be costly and often dangerous. The means would be by eating too little, wearing makeup, excessive manipulation to your hair and fingernails, and medical procedures. The medical procedures may include adding artificial materials to your body, removing, moving, flesh, fat, and even bone.
If you go past just styling in a way you can do without artificial materials, you become not yourself any longer.
You may even go further and manipulate your photos to look entirely different than you do or could do through any medical procedures or makeup.
NOTES:
- Dad Bod – What is it? Do women really like them? How many like them? What about it do they like? Is it a trap?
- Youth – men and women…
- Lead with looks, get stuck with worrying about if people only like you because of those looks. Instead, connect with people through your personality and character. Something that should grow instead of fade. Something you don’t have to spend money and time to maintain so much. No surgeries required.
- Clothing beauty standards – expensive fancy clothes, how many for novelty, how much skin is shown
- Thirst traps for validation
- Genuine vs Superficiality
- Evolutionary Drives for beauty standards
- Huge mismatch of evo drive such as being able to see the entire planet
- Cultural norms – going to store, going to work, etc.
- “Fitting in”
“I just like wearing makeup for myself even if I’m all alone for nobody else.”
Beauty enhancements for evolutionary drives
Looking good to yourself only is not evolved value
Looking good for others is what evolved value
Like sugar drive can hurt us, the same drive for beauty can hurt us
Sugar companies and beauty product companies exploit our evolutionary drives
Meditations on Moloch – https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/