The following post is intended to promote a discussion about beauty standards. A theme that has been increasingly massified and highlighted in humanity. How and when did the concept of beauty standards begin to exist?
One possible explanation for such a complex question is that patterns of beauty are part of something natural to the human being. Once homo sapiens came into existence and was perpetuated in society, it became necessary to establish patterns of beauty according to what was "desired," that is, what was expected to be perpetuated for the descendants and the future. In addition, another factor that contributes to the construction of these patterns of beauty are the biological characteristics that have helped and helped homo sapiens to survive. A perfect reflection of this is the Venus of Willendorf, one of the earliest records of mankind on a reference to beauty, estimated to have been carved between 28,000 and 25,000 years before Christ. It is believed that the opulent and plentiful forms of women were factors greatly desired by societies, as they were more conducive to gestations in hostile and uncertain conditions, it is worth remembering that the search for food was something much more difficult in ancient times than today.
Right, understanding a supposed origin helps us through this complex reflection on what we know today. But why and how did the existing standards of beauty settle? Ultimately, what we see when we open the instagram or watch a Holywood movie is very different from the Venus of Willendorf ... What I can not say if it is something positive or not! Because the number of adolescents and women who suffer from anorexia and other eating disorders does not stop growing. At the end of the day, what are we looking for? Why does the fashion industry keep on encouraging people to look for bodies like these?
What do you think of this kind of standardization of beauty, I would really like to know what the Steem community thinks about it?
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