Question about Topic

Hello beautiful reader! So, I presented my topic on my class and the profssor asked me: "How can you stand by the positive impact of today´s beauty standards when people are willing to change all they are to meet the standards set by society?" So here´s is my answer...

I can stand by the positive impact since today´s beauty standards are different than what we know as a “beauty standard”. In the past, Fashion Standard and Beauty Standard were the same time, while now that has, thankfully, changed. It´s a fact that today everyone is telling us to be confident and be happy in our own skin in order to be beautiful. This is proved by social media, the many blogs about this, what professionals are helping us do and the raise of plus size and petite models like Nadia Aboulhosn and Tess Mounter. Another fact is that in the 90´s “beauty campaigns” were held by fashion magazines with models like Kate Moss telling us that we had to look like that. But today many organizations are raising and doing these campaigns and they all have the same conclusion; confidence and self-accepting is the real beauty of society.

When it comes to the movie “The Devil Wears Prada”, it clearly represents what I´m saying. The scene “the interview” it shows that confidence and knowing who you are can get you anywhere. Another scene called “the belts” represents that fashion and beauty is not the same thing. Beauty is what Andy (Anne Hathaway) sees as identical and ugly belts while Miranda (Meryll Streep) represents the fashion that sees the belts as completely different pieces of art. The girl, Andy, represents what society should do and this is shown in the end where she lets herself free and becomes more confident and follows her happiness. So this movie is showing us that we should follow what she did and be confident and self-confident on who you are to be successful and beautiful, a standard.  (Check my last post for more detail)

What´s incredible and positive of today´s standard is that it´s telling us that we shouldn´t change anything. We only have to be proud of ourselves because we´re beautiful just the way we are. It is known that this has helped reduce suicide and eating problems around the world. So I stand by the positive impact of today´s beauty standards because they are telling us to be happy. And if that´s not positive, then no one knows what positive is.