What defines beauty?

We can complain about today’s ideal body. We can yell at the skinny girls. And tell them that their body looks unhealthy. This off course would be unfair to all of the girls that are skinny simply because they are born that way. We could also tell all the fat girls that they are unhealthy and that they need to drop some serious weight to go forward as a good example. This off course would be wrong, because they might be just as healthy as any other person you seen on the street. We could also tell the muscular girls that they look like men, and that women are not supposed to look that way. This would be wrong simply because they might define beauty and a different way than you do.

So what is beauty? What defines beauty? Wikipedia told me this: Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An “ideal beauty” is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.

When we read this we can understand that there is no real definition of the word beauty. Because what gives people satisfaction is so individual there is no real answer to any of it. It seems that the saying that goes like this “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” really makes a lot of sense. So the next time we see someone we believe to be ugly, we should remind our self that there is no true definition of beauty, therefor there can’t be no true definition of ugly.

With this knowledge you could also slowly but surely cure your own bad self-esteem (that is if you have such a thing). You could set your own look to be your very own definition of beauty and in that way see yourself as beautiful. Or simply tell yourself that it does not matter if you don’t look like the unreal looking people in the magazines, because beauty cannot be defined, and somewhere out there will be someone that believe you are the definition of beauty.

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Skinny love

Everyday girls lose themselves in order to get thin. In order to feel in control. To feel pretty.  

Pro ana is a fact; a phenomenon known buy millions of boys and girls across the globe. It slowly kills hundreds of people, and devastates the life of thousands. There is nothing we can do about the fact that young girls destroy the life of their own and others. There is something we can do about why. And why is it that so many girls (and boys) hate their bodies? I first want to make one thing clear, anorexia and other forms of eating disorders are very much metal illnesses that is to be taken serious. Most of the people suffering from these types of disorders do not do so because of the internet phenomenon that is PRO ANA. Anyway, we should see pro ana as a threat to our society, as a threat to our sons and daughters. As a threat to us. Now back to my question; what can we do to help? Here are 5 simple steps that will HELP change the horrible view on the human body.

1. Take complete distance from any form of Pro Ana and thinspiration.
2. Do not support the fashion industry, which needless to say breeds both pro ana and eating disorders.
3. Take good care of the young people in your society, and in your family. Talk to them, and tell them that they are just as they are supposed to be.
4. Don’t buy magazines that benefit from young girls lack of self-esteem. Do not buy magazines that glorify extreme dieting and underweight celebrities.
5. Tell people what you think, what you believe in. If you believe that pro ana is wrong, and if you believe that the ideal body of today is wrong. LET PEOPLE KNOW. The more we talk about this, the better!

Now go out, change the world!

“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
― Marya Hornbacher

So long