Stop The Beauty Madness

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Du er fire år, og redd for at omgivelsene skal synes at rumpa di er stygg

Det er én måned til du feirer femårsdagen din og du gjemmer deg bak håndduken for at ingen skal si noe om rumpa di. Du vil ikke at de skal synes at den er stygg. Jeg tenker på mannlig sjargong, blikk og fylleprat. Du fikk altså fire år som barn før du begynte å tenke på hvordan du bør se ut for at omgivelsene skal like deg. Og det er ikke dine fire år gamle kompisers feil. Det er min.
Les mer: Du er fire år, og redd for at omgivelsene skal synes at rumpa di er stygg

Det är en månad innan ditt femårskalas och du vill att jag ska hålla en handduk runt dig medan du byter om från baddräkt till klänning. Jag frågar varför och du förklarar att du inte vill att de andra barnen ska säga att din rumpa är ful. Mina ögon bränner och mina käkar spänns. Jag hade blivit Hulken och kastat varenda skitunge i havet om det hade hjälpt. Men jag vet att det inte hjälper. Det är inte skitungarnas fel. De gör vad vi gör. Det är inte de fyraåriga pojkarna och flickornas fel. Det är vårt. Föräldrarna. Det är en månad kvar innan ditt femårskalas och du gömmer dig bakom handduken för att ingen ska säga något om din rumpa. Du vill inte att de ska tycka att den är ful.
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Stop The Beauty Madness

There comes a time when you have simply had enough

Enough of the impossible standards. Enough of the "ideal" image. Most of all, enough of the feeling of NOT ENOUGH when it comes to your own beauty. There also comes a time when an entire culture of women have had it. When blogs and ad campaigns and AS-IS selfie pictures start to change the rules of the game.

That time is now. That culture is this culture.

Today, there is more than a choir singing out the truths of true beauty. There is a great groundswell and the numbers are rising daily. We are a new tribe, and we know it is time to take back the streets-OUR streets. We know that begins with lifting our self-esteem, our self-imposed standards of worth, and honoring our deepest truths about what it means to be "enough."

We are not only working towards this change. We are witnessing this change. We women KNOW we are done with competing, done with comparing, and done with playing the ugly/beauty game. We are waking up from the crazy beauty hypnoses we have been under.

We are determined to Stop The Beauty Madness in our ourselves, our mothers, our sisters and our daughters.

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'Stop The Beauty Madness' Brands Ads With Brutally Honest Messages

It's a psychological itch that the most enlightened, successful and even beautiful women still tend to scratch: if I look better, I am better. Now one campaign is trying to convince others to break free from that line of thought. The Stop The Beauty Madness campaign wants you to "feel like you've been socked in the gut" when you see its jarringly frank ads, says its founder Robin Rice.

Stop The Beauty Madness is a series of 25 advertisements branded with honest messages that highlight the true "madness" involved in creating and meeting beauty standards. Rice, an author and the founder of Be Who You Are Productions, started the campaign to challenge an internalized belief that a woman's beauty determines her value.

Read more (The Huffington Post). It's worth it!

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Lisa Meade #StopTheBeautyMadness



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Kom til å tenke på da jeg for noen år siden hørte to guttunger på rundt fem seks år som diskuterte
"Hvor mange fedre har du hatt" spør den første
"eeeh, jeg har bare en far", svarer den andre
Den første ser sjokkert ut og utbryter
"Er moren din så stygg at ingen andre vil ha henne"



Har ofte tenkt på denne samtalen og fundert på hva slags bilde barn vokser opp med, hvordan de verdsetter ting og om de virkelig blir så forkvaklet at de kun ser på det ytre og til slutt ender opp med et veldig skjevt ideal over hvordan mennesker skal se ut.

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'Stop The Beauty Madness' Brands Ads With Brutally Honest Messages

It's a psychological itch that the most enlightened, successful and even beautiful women still tend to scratch: if I look better, I am better. Now one campaign is trying to convince others to break free from that line of thought. The Stop The Beauty Madness campaign wants you to "feel like you've been socked in the gut" when you see its jarringly frank ads, says its founder Robin Rice.

Stop The Beauty Madness is a series of 25 advertisements branded with honest messages that highlight the true "madness" involved in creating and meeting beauty standards. Rice, an author and the founder of Be Who You Are Productions, started the campaign to challenge an internalized belief that a woman's beauty determines her value.

Read more (The Huffington Post). It's worth it!

An epidemic of beauty sickness



Little girls grow up hearing both implicit and explicit messages suggesting that the most
important attribute they can strive for is beauty. A media culture that focuses on denigrating
women who fail to meet the beauty standard turns women against women and sends men the
message that evaluative commentary on appearance is fair game. The chronic focus on beauty
directs cognitive, financial, and emotional resources away from other more important goals.

Dr. Engeln considers whether there is hope for treating the epidemic of beauty sickness and
what it might be like to live in a world where women spend less time in front of the mirror and
more time changing the world.

Dr. Engeln is a psychologist and body image researcher at Northwestern University, where she
is a Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished University Lecturer. Dr. Engeln’s research focuses
on issues surrounding women’s body images, with a particular emphasis on cultural practices
that create or enforce the frequently contentious relationship women have with their bodies.
She received her doctorate in social psychology from Loyola University Chicago in 2004 and
a masters in clinical psychology from Miami University in 1999. Read more...