Re: What is a "Thigh Gap"?
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:39 am
Sigh... yet another case of girls obsessing over physical appearance, and feeling like we're not adequate unless we look a certain way, often sacrificing our very mental health and vitality in order to get it.
This is why I hate the beauty industry so much... we really are trying to live up to completely impossible standards. And then those standards get internalized, and get used as some sort of social-pressure hierarchy where those who do fit those standards use them to oppress those who don't and make them feel inferior. The sheer amount of self-confidence issues among girls, specifically middle-class white girls, who are most likely to fall victim to the "good girl" mindset of wanting to be perfect and please absolutely EVERYONE, is absolutely terrible.
This is why I hate the beauty industry so much... we really are trying to live up to completely impossible standards. And then those standards get internalized, and get used as some sort of social-pressure hierarchy where those who do fit those standards use them to oppress those who don't and make them feel inferior. The sheer amount of self-confidence issues among girls, specifically middle-class white girls, who are most likely to fall victim to the "good girl" mindset of wanting to be perfect and please absolutely EVERYONE, is absolutely terrible.
