#western beauty standards

[k-wame]

i didn’t need science to tell me that

#amber heard #science #beauty #western beauty standards #phi #1.618 #golden ratio of beauty #ancient greece #gorgeous #gorgeous girls #beauty standards

[fantasykiri5]

Ooh, headcanon: Sklonda was straightening her hair during the freshman and junior year seasons and stopped this year/when she quit the force

#kiri rambles #is this just to make the genetics of my Riz having curly hair while I can’t see Pok with anything other than bone straight hair? yes #does it correlate to their family being 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and parallel the pressure poc and immigrant women face irl to- #-conform to western and Eurocentric beauty standards to be taken seriously? also yes #I fucking love the Gukgaks man they tear me to shreds #I started watching s3 yesterday finally and I just got to the Sklonda scene in ep 2 and I had to pause mid way through to make this post #sklonda gukgak #fantasy high #fhjy

[darkfictionjude]

One day (once MC and the RO are in a relationship), maybe for Prom if you want, MC says they want to have a make over like in the movies and ask the RO for help. Would they help MC with this Cinderella moment? Or would they think it's stupid, they are pretty as they are, so why do anything?

And what if MC had a makeover without the help of the RO's, changed their wardrobe and hairstyle, and now they look their best?

Imre would dress them, apply mc and do their hair but he would make sure mc still looks like mc. If mc did that by themself, he would think they look beautiful but that they always look beautiful

Nia would think mc is being insane, they’re pretty and it’s stupid for people to be pressured to “be beautiful” on account on what society dictates. She’ll help them get ready, and groom themself but the aim isn’t to remake mc just to make them look presentable. If mc did it to themself, Nia would think they’re pretty but now has to change her planned outfit to match mc’s which annoys her

Lorcan doesn’t know how to do any of that and tells mc not to ask him because if he tries he’ll make them look worse. If mc did it themself it would be like one of those movie scenes in slow motion as his drag drops when mc walks in

#ugh I hate makeover scenes damn you westernized beauty standards #lowkey I’ll do any 90s cliche but not that one #makeover #we wretched creatures

[thalassous]

more people gotta see enjolras as that one vine thats like. "hmhmhm. you were wrong! <:)"

(goddess braids enj from the-march-hair because lord thats so smart)

#les miserables #les mis #whale's fall #enjolras #enjolras les mis #grantaire #(for the cameo thanks r) #OK SO THE CONTEXT HERE IS . YKNOW #THE BLOND BOY URGE PULLED ME SO. FAR #WE REACJED ALBINISM #and honestly to me the intersectionality here of like. the writing of hugo where enj is of course this beautiful. western beauty. #and the double standards that are placed on people with albinism / colourism seemed like a Really enjolras thing #we loose the piercing eyes for this one but we win because albino enjolras ok. it fuckig rules #also my peak exr content really is just. did you. do the dishes? i thought you. wanted to. mhhmhmg. you were wrong! #peak modern exr #(i just want them both to be bitches more in fandom like they are in canon) #hi the tags are for my words. its 12 am

[ovaruling]

i hate editing so much oh my god

a vivien leigh account posted this pic, a cap from a scene in gwtw and it is beyond me why they would edit viv like this wtf

like. she was and is already considered one of the most beautiful women to ever be committed to film. WHY WOULD YOU EDIT HER

she was already fkn born looking edited irl!!! and she was already in full MGM makeup and lighting here to boot!!! why would you make her look like a plastic AI painting!!!!! i truly don’t understand like was she not beautiful enough for you in the original footage????? i cant fathom this

#if viv gets edited then all hope is lost to me tbh #WHAT IS THERE TO EDIT pray tell #she fits every western beauty standard there is #how does SHE not satisfy y’all

[lesbianyosano]

there is something so nefarious about animanga fans’ willingness to perceive the characters as white even when they are explicitly stated to be japanese

#yes this is abt the chuuya is french hc #ive posted abt it before but idc #txt. #and yeah its in part bc of designs and how animes esp feel the need to change designs to ig make the characters more distinguishable #visually at least #but it’s be stupid to pretend east asia isn’t heavily influenced by western beauty standards #and sure race politics are different in asia and east asia especially #so a lot of manga creators don’t think twice about having a character be asian and blonde and green eyed etc #but white fans insisting characters are white/part white… be frrr #also. when ppl try to talk abt how 'oh i don’t think chuuya is french i just think he knows languages bc of mafia business 🥺🥺' #and then every language they hc him as knowing is a european language #like even assuming pm cares enough to educate anyone the first language to be taught should be chinese not fucking french come on #also YES i still avoid blue eyed chuuya content for the most part

[hussyknee]

Thinking about how so much of what we call beautiful and attractive is just proximity to white European features and figures. I think a decolonized understanding of beauty necessarily wouldnt allow for any universal standards. Ideally, there should be no premium put on attractiveness. Failing that, however, it would be real nice if whatever arbitrates the concept of beauty didn't involve simply hating your racial and ethnic origins.

I'm not particularly evolved in that area myself. I still find fair skin, light eyes, slim figures and sharp features much more appealing. However, I do find stick thin white women unattractive as hell. For now, as a proud South Asian woman with child-bearing hips, I call that praxis.

#my nose used to plague me as a girl #it was just a little large for my face and snub #my Dad's nose. I grew into it later in life but tbh I now realize it gave my face character #but because I obsessed so much over it I didn't I was quite attractive until I was in my late 20s #my sister didn't meet any beauty standards whether Western or local #but I wonder if she would of some other culture that valued and normalized broader faces #not that it really mattered. I got looks and she got everything else lol #but it always breaks my heart when a brown girl decides to get a nose job #half of them don't even stand out. They're just standard brown people noses that fit in with the rest of their features #but no gotta make them more European #the beauty and plastic surgery industry preys on our girls so much #decolonization #beauty standards #colonialism #white supremacy #white women #racism #internalized racism #knee of huss

[bwarkz]

terfs in the replies are writing off this horrific incident and even trying to defend this kind of outburst because “this wouldn’t have happened if trans women never tried to use women’s bathrooms!”

that’s not the point. the point is this is far from the first time this has happened, and it won’t be the last. the point is this kind of reaction isn’t just hurting trans women, but it’s making cis women who don’t fit your idea of traditional white western femininity feel unsafe.

you can’t write this off as ‘collateral damage’ when you’re hurting the very people you claim you’re trying to protect. i thought you cared about cis women? that’s why you’re doing all this right? to protect them? but how many times has this reaction actually kept someone safe from a predator pretending to be a woman? now compare that to the amount of times your rhetoric has hurt innocent and vulnerable women.

so who’s actually being hurt here? is it you, because someone who might be a trans woman wanted to pee? or is it other women, who just wanted to use a public restroom in peace but couldn’t because you harassed them? those women are now scared and insecure that they look too masculine to be treated with human decency. is it really worth it?

#transmisogyny / #fucking awful #this one is for the ‘we can always tell’ crowd #biologists fucking hate you lol #congratulations! in an attempt to shit on trans women you’ve brought back and enforced the very beauty standards you claim #to be fighting against! #while also revealing your ideals to be racist at their core because of your insistence that anyone who isn’t small petite dainty and skinny #(aka white western beauty standards) #can’t possibly be a real woman! #you sure owned those misogynists you claim fo hate so much! #..by becoming one and parroting what they say word for word

[alexsrandomramblings]

Mordecai Heller be pissed bc he doesn't "want women's attention" don't be sex symbol shaped then idiot

Poor confused sex-repulsed ace kid. "What do you mean, people are actually attracted to me?"

#alex rambles #mordecai heller #lackadaisy #I'm not saying he's confused because he's ace #he's confused because he's Mordecai #Mordecai who despite pretty much being the standard of western male beauty for the time #has neither the knowledge nor the desire to make use of it

[thatnonb1ny-cvmslut]

Got called creepy by an anon today, not sure how to feel about that other than possibly validated(?)

Either way anon, if you're reading this please

It's spelled "really" not "rlly".

Could've been a typo in your haste to send anon hate but autocorrect is still a feature.. so like... Try harder I guess.

#weird #i know im creepy #im an amab enby on the site that considers enby/androgyny to be lily white and palatable to western beauty standards #but im still gonna hold my space for me #thanks for renewing my resolve anon!

[chocolate-pretz]

yknow, it’s no big deal. But whenever Marinette’s transforms into Lady Noir, the peach tinge in her skin will always bother me.

I mean as it is, her eyes are blue, her hair is blue, and many other things that seem trivial like she doesn’t know a lick of Chinese despite her mum literally having changed her name to Sabine from her Chinese name. Or that her eyes are big and round. Like okay, sure, not all of us have mono lids. I have double eyelids too.

She’s Eurasian, literally half Chinese half European.

Maybe we can get more of Marinette embracing her Chinese roots more? Maybe learn her Chinese name or something. I mean I’m Eurasian too, my grandma’s Chinese. I may not have my Chinese name on my birth certificate, and it may have been given to me by my primary school teacher, but I’ll always appreciate that I do have a Chinese name.

I don’t know. It just would be nice. Wishful thinking? It would be nice for someone with no knowledge of Miraculous to randomly watch an episode and immediately catch on that Mari’s Chinese without having to hear her surname

#miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #Eurasian #Lowkey feels like Asian erasure in the character design but what do I know #it’s just how I feel as a fellow Eurasian who has to deal with western beauty standards too

[whileyoureinschoolidothisallday]

This tiktok I watch: I don't think I know a single woman who lives in a body she actually likes.

Me: Inch resting

#real life with risa #listen I'm not tryna like....decide people's genders #but if you're having these thoughts where you're viscerally upset with and uncomfortable with your body #like constantly #maybe sit with that for a minute. just do a little check in. #it could be what you're saying!!!!!!! Just your run of the mill fatphobia/ageism/western beauty standards pressure for women #or y'know. you might wanna be switchin your presentation up a bit #cause actually it's not an average thing for people to literally hate their bodies!!!!!!!! #kinda like the 'how much pain is normal' question #ZERO. the answer is zero.

[thebirdandhersong]

rlly appreciate that the casting for OUAT is like. normal people! with wrinkles and freckles and moles and crow's feet

#point being i do appreciate that this show from the 2010s isn't as silly as some shows from the 2020s #that cast only hyperpolished hypersexualised hyper-carved to fit a very narrow beauty standard people #this is more a problem in asian shows than western shows but i AM glad that. like. the actors are allowed to just Exist #some of them put on or lose weight through the seasons and that's like. normal! and fine! #over the course of the show you watch their smile lines frown lines etc deepen and that's GOOD and allowed and not frantically scrubbed at #the way some kdramas/cdramas do! #don't know where i'm going with this but i do like this about ouat #even though in my personal opinion too much mascara/eyeliner is being used on every girl who shows up on the screen #songbird watches ouat

[rubberbandballqueen]

it is becoming Increasingly Clear to me that i can no longer be taken out into public because i will start doing to fonts what jirt would do to the rocks and plants whilst on little walks

#the worm speaks #i'm noticing that a lot of signage these days don't have small caps which is a bit sad but i suppose they are somewhat antiquated #most of them have just straight up all-caps and i'm like 'mmmm. would a small caps version be better here?' #the other day i was like 'what if i left everything behind to get a job at a type foundry in taiwan. what then.' #what would i bring to the table there? why a sense of western aestheticism for the latin glyphs in their fonts #combined with a lesser but probably still noteworthy knowledge of chinese calligraphy to help ensure there is a sense of unity #btwn the latin and chinese glyphs #and also kerning i would bring kerning to the table for the latin glyphs. like if we Must be monospace abt things we can do that #but on god. the number of times i download a cn script font and go 'ah.' bc the english is the Ugliest monospace serif you'll ever see #fortunately while it is a bit of work it's at least easier to match english fonts to cn ones bc there are So Many more free ones lol #the other day i was looking through a chinese font website n i was reading their ~story~ behind this one particular series #that they based off the calligraphy in these five or six Ancient Rare Books in the national palace museum #and they were like 'yes the poetry was beautiful and moving. but to a type designer the writing itself is even more attractive' #and i felt so called out. i have just the most incurable font disease on the planet lmao #the other thing i think that might be neat to bring to cn font design Would be the concept of italics #like i know that's just not a standard thing and that Makes sense bc to oblique the letters is just #like. why would you do that. it's hard to read. but the spirit of italics is to change the font style entirely whilst keeping in harmony #with the rest of the regular typeface which i think would be Neat to bring in esp since italics usually have a bit more flourish to them #the other day i also found out that fangsong is used in government documents n i was like #>:0 no wonder it has every character and variant known to man......

[degenderates]

Yes I am staunchly anti plastic surgery (minus necessary = medical/pain/trans reasons) unless you're trying to look more like a freak. But normally it's just about looking more to the patriarchy's standards and not only is that harmful to women's (and men's but lbr it's mainly women) self-image it's lame as hell.

#to be clear im not against the individuals who get it. im against the normalization and the expectation (in some regards) of it #rich ppl will always look 'more beautiful' than the average person under the way it works too. so like. its not just sexism its classism #lets not even talk about western beauty standards and race #josiah speaks