hm75059

I have always struggled with beauty standards. A recovering anorexic and a zillion other identifiable eating disorders have consumed my life since I was 13. I am now 21…
Upon entering college, my eyes were opened wide with various Gender and Sociology classes which have not only changed my life (hence logging onto this blog, reading it daily, and now- writing in it..) but given me this newfound perspective on what I think beauty is and why.
I can remember as far back as four looking through magazines with my older sister and picking out which girl we thought was the prettiest- I cannot help but look back and wonder why we cared so much… I can remember in middle school, the beginning of my seven year battle with food- getting ready with friends for football games. We would doll ourselves up in the mirror, curl our hair; pick out an outfit that showed a nice hint of the little cleavage we had. Why did we care so much?
Looking back on my youth has made me understand how influential society, peers, the media, EVERYONE contains a very ingrained idea of what beauty is.
SO- here I am asking- what is beauty? I don’t need the whole- “beauty is in the eye of the beholder bullshit” -it’s not (in the very very physical sense that I am speaking of anyways). I asked a coworker this question- and she told me that “biologically men ...