How Can We Dismantle the Social Construct of Female Beauty?
Women’s bodies and sexuality have historically been used as a commodity to sell everything on earth, from car tires to household appliances! Women are often depicted as objects of visual and sexual pleasure across television, magazines, media, and entertainment industries. If we look around ourselves, we’ll find hypersexualized and unrealistically perfect female forms almost everywhere. Let’s…
The Role of the Society in Crafting Our Body Image
There are a lot of things that led to my developing body image issues as a teenager. A lot of this was teasings and comments from a few school friends, and for a long time, I wanted to blame my eating disorder on those specific people. But the older I grew the more I got intrigued by…