Why do people act like beauty standards are ridiculous? They are like exactly what is most healthy?

[Intothevoid666]

Heterosexual body standards for both genders almost identically reflect what is ideally healthy. In shape and in the middle of a normal BMI and low body fat but not too low. U can’t get healthier than the beauty standard for both genders. And ok sure u see some models who are slightly underweight and a few who are downright anorexic but those ones are almost always modeling clothes and never their bodies and being slightly underweight is not dramatically unhealthy like everyone wants to make it out to be. U have to be very underweight for it to become a serious health risk as a young person.

[snackthatsmilesback]

Okay but you also have to be very overweight for it to be a health problem, and just the fucking process of losing weight and getting to "ideal shape" can be fucking hell on your body and mind. If you are maintaining a healthy body but it's on the other side of ideal than the beauty standards lean toward, that pressures a lot of kids into trying to cross over needlessly and dangerously.

The better thing by far than idealizing a "healthy body" would be to idealize healthy habits. Eating well, exercising, good sleep, yknow..

[Intothevoid666]

A BMI between 19-22 is ideal for longevity I just looked this up today. Overweight is less healthy than normal weight. This is not rocket science. Ok but u can’t see visually if someone eats well or sleeps well. But yeah muscularity is attractive.

[snackthatsmilesback]

Yeah and if you don't know someone maybe don't judge their health? People can do everything right and still be overweight—or still *look* overweight. It's not that uncommon. Based just on looks you may think they don't take care of themselves, when actually the time they don't take care of themself is when they finally lose weight and get congratulated on how "healthy" they are.
There are way more unhealthy things to do than be a little fat. Have you looked up what bad eating or bad sleeping does to you long term?

[Anonymous]

They don’t really. I mean, being really slim as a woman or jacked and ripped as a man is more healthy than being fat, but the kinds of bodies which are pushed as the ideal aren’t completely healthy.

For women, many models are too skinny. It’s not healthy for a woman to be below 20% body fat, which is slim already, but the “ideal” women often are. Then obviously there are others who have a lot of plastic surgery, or heavily edit their photos.

For men, the ideal body pushed on us is the body of a steroid user. A lot of people over-estimate how big a drug-free athlete/lifter can get, with a low enough body fat percentage to look ripped. And how many jacked guys who claim to be natty are not - and those people will of course accuse anybody who says this of just being jealous, or lazy, because they can’t do it. The argument works because most people have no idea about what is physiologically possible.

[Intothevoid666]

Women seem to prefer men who are muscular at a BMI right in the middle of normal and at about 10% body fat that’s like ideally healthy. And yeah I agree for women it’s not quite as straightforward but guys also seem to prefer women who are in the middle of a normal BMI lean and in shape. Maybe the body fat level men prefer on women isn’t ideally healthy but I would say what men would pick to be the ideal female body is generally quite healthy

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, I suppose I’m taking about the kinds of things put out in the media and whatnot.

[Intothevoid666]

Fair enough yeah the media distorts our perceptions of what the opposite sex finds attractive

[NathanDavis]

beauty standards are idiotic... plain and simple

a pound is standard, a kilo is standard...

beauty is extremely subjective as a concept, so think that there could be standards is just stupidity

[Intothevoid666]

Ok well models all tend to have the same body type so ur wrong there is a beauty standard

[NathanDavis]

no, you are the wrong one... also on this

there is all different kind of models, runaway models, high-end fashion models, clothing store models, lingerie models, swimsuit models... commercial models, TV models, erotica models

and many other different kinds of model with different body types

so, as you see... you just got stupid about it because you refuse to see what is evidently, and that is the problem

[Intothevoid666]

Google top 10 most successful male models right now and tell me most of them are not exactly as I described

[NathanDavis]

none of them would be more successful than Elon Musk... or Gates, or Bezos

"success" is not exactly a reflection of beauty

[Intothevoid666]

Wtf does that have to do with any of this lmfao

[NathanDavis]

exactly... stop the insecure nonsense and grow up, for a change

[Intothevoid666]

Someone is Burt hurt af holy shit

[NathanDavis]

well, I am not the one with dozens of the same questions over and over

"why women don't want me" "why are they all bad" "why do they always with muscle guys"

[Intothevoid666]

u actually went and read my profile. Jesus Christ dude imagine being this butthurt over a post like this. I think this is a sign u need to start working out and try a new diet lmfao

[NathanDavis]

no... I just see your posts in the live feed all the time, that's what you call a memory...

and it's always the same troll whining, over and over...

[Tyrael]

Lol no, they're certainly not standard or healthy.

[Intothevoid666]

Yes they are the middle of a normal BMI and ripped at 10% body fat is like ideally healthy for a guy.

[Intothevoid666]

And that’s exactly what most male models look like