Tracee Ellis Ross got chance to speak on society’s beauty standards in a video. Ross believes that society puts unrealistic standards on women.
Ross says,
“We have told women that there is a standard of beauty that makes them think they have to do things to themselves that they aren’t naturally. To look like something they aren’t naturally as if who they are is not beautiful. So women have been manipulating their hair, their asses their breasts, their lips and all of this for some standard of beauty that is not natural, as if we’re these air brushed creatures that are objects for desire and that is not what women are.”
She went on to say,
“I am an advocate for women having the freedom to choose. I don’t like the idea that women might be shamed into making choices, or feel shame for the choices they make. I’m making a comment on our culture. A culture of beauty that narrowly defines beauty and this idea that women are only objects and worthy of love if they match up to this ever changing always unattainable, like, arbitrary standard of beauty.”
I think we can all agree that Ross has a point. Society definitely makes women feel like we have to live up to their standards.
Check out the full video below.
Source: VIBE
