What's one beauty standard that you don't agree with?
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Overalls. Can't handle em
Overalls are awesome. Especially when worn by a handsome guy without a shirt underneath.
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Most of them, but by far makeup.
If someone enjoys it and wants to, I don't judge.
But I seriously never saw a person who looks better with makeup. Even light makeup ( which can look good) still looks worse than just natural.
Also there is this vicious cycle where heavy makeup users have worse skin and more pimples so they feel pressure to but heavier makeup, which in turn worsens the skin condition.
People, be happy, love yourself, you are pretty for who you are.
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I inherently detest the concept of a "beauty standard". Something so subjective to each individual experience as "beauty" shouldn't have a standard, and a mentality or social culture that tries to establish or reinforce them is something I believe to be highly problematic.
Like in this very post, all the people who are admonishing body modification (injections, implants, piercings, tattoos, etc...). That has been a thing humans have done since ancient times. It is just a form of personal expression, there is nothing inherently wrong with the practice itself. It is the social expectations that makes those things appear uncomfortable at first glance instead of just a different but equally valid form of personal expression. A lot of the comments around them are very judgmental of the assumed reasons behind doing it, though, and it is because of societal "beauty standards" that people behave and think this way.
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I don't like big boobs almost ever.
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wow holy racist batman
The racist is the one bitching about long nails, a predominant standard of beauty in black culture, and how much it makes them uncomfortable.
Like, no one needs to hear your judgement of someone else's choice of personal expression. Ever heard the phrase "ain't got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all"? This is where that applies.
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welcome to the evening news, man creates thread so he can bitch about Black women. more at 5 when he phones back in to say how he's entitled to his opinion.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Truly ironic people are trying to say you're the racist for calling someone else out for espousing racist rhetoric.
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I don't think tattoos have been about rebellion in a long time. It's just art for your body.
It was always just art for your body.
People who got tattoos wanted to be able to express themselves in the way they desired, by decorating their body with artwork, and didn't appreciate having their decision dictated by arbitrary standards that they did not agree to. They weren't doing it for the sake of rebellion, it was just called rebellion because it went against the social expectations of the time.
People often do not understand the reason behind the act of rebellion and attribute those engaging in the activities as being done for the sake of rebellion itself instead of some deeper cause.
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The racist is the one bitching about long nails, a predominant standard of beauty in black culture, and how much it makes them uncomfortable.
Like, no one needs to hear your judgement of someone else's choice of personal expression. Ever heard the phrase "ain't got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all"? This is where that applies.
Long nails are a thing with women of all races. I wouldn't call it predominantly black. I'd call it predominantly tacky.
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"Beauty has to be gendered"
I think you don't need to "look like a man" or "look like a woman" to be pretty
Angelic androgynous beauty is indeed so very beautiful.
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Says fat people promote unhealthy lifestyles.
Gif: An obese chick getting exercise while playing an instrument that takes considerable muscle control and a high lung capacity.Damn. Lot of people really hate fat folks.
I'm just saying you want to prove fat people are unhealthy— a woman in a career that takes a high level of stamina and discipline isn't a great example.Yeah that's a terrible example of an unhealthy fat person, she is an outlier for sure, was so overweight and could run and sing at the same time! I'm sure it's harder on your joints and all but if someone can out-dance you, while singing loud, she is in better cardiovascular shape than you.
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Holy shit that's wild. Is BMI good for anything, then? Or does it need abandoned?
BMI misses more often in the other direction (skinny-fat), being fit and obese is much less common.
It's my understanding that the only proven health metric with regard to size is waist to height. Your waist measurement less than half your height? Then you don't have too much abdominal fat, and it's the abdominal fat that is a bigger risk to your health.
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Tabs were literally designed for indenting, as far as I can tell.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Not really, surprisingly. The "tab" terminology is a hangover from the typewriter days, when pressing the tab key would move your carriage to the left (i.e. sending the typing position towards the right) to the point where the tab stop was, which may or may not have been user configurable depending on the age or fanciness level of your typewriter. On mechanical models this involved sliding a little arrowhead shaped mechanical dingus up at the top over the carriage, a skeuomorph that's still present in basically every computer word processing application even today.
This was to allow operators to easily write tabular data, i.e. tables or columns, which would be inset from the left margin by a consistent amount, and typically much further inboard than the indent at the beginning of a paragraph would be. The latter was usually accomplished with a small number of spaces instead. And this is why the key is called "tab" and not "ind" or something.
This got carried over to word processors and then to computers kind of by default. But interestingly (if you're the right kind of nerd to be interested by that sort of thing, anyway) early 8 bit microcomputers that were not envisaged with word processing or a typewriter-esque paradigm in mind conspicuously lacked a tab key. The Commodore 64 and Vic 20, TI-99, Acorn Electron, and certainly the ZX Spectrum all leap to mind.
But the original IBM PC definitely had a tab key, which was almost certainly carried directly over from IBM's Selectric typewriters. So we've had it ever since. The notion of there being a "tab character" of some greater-than-space width lent it to being used for first line indents for a while, but the prominence of HTML and its dogged insistence on collapsing whitespace -- especially at the beginning of lines -- eventually put a stop to that and caused practically everybody to switch to double line breaks to separate paragraphs instead. Except for writing code, which can involve a whole bunch of indentation to many, many levels of depth.
Indenting the starts of paragraphs was an even older hangover from printing presses, and that's another whole damn rabbit hole anyway.
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It can go too far in the opposite direction, though. I was raised in an environment where men doing literally anything besides showering a bit was gay.
Arguably, being muscular is a male beauty standard. I would very much prefer it if men had more freedom of expression, though.
