A run through beauty standards

        What does it mean to be beautiful? According to the creator of Barbie, to be beautiful means to have "breasts [are] so out of proportion...she'd fall flat on her face".(Prager)

        I find this gross and wrong. Barbie wasn't designed for people to base standards off of. She is not supposed to be a role model. She is a fantasy. To base beauty standards off of a doll makes absolutely no sense, mostly because of the fact that she is FAKE. You don't call yourself poor because Jordan Belfort from "Wolf of Wall Street" is rich. You don't base your standards of money off of something fake and unrealistic so why are beauty standards based on exactly that. Something fake and unrealistic. Barbie isn't even a foot tall yet little girls all over the world believe that she is the ideal female. How is the...whatever that thing is below...considered a role model, something children look up to.

   It shouldn't be. If girls expect themselves to look like that in their futures, we are all,"trapped in Barbie's world".(Prager) We are digging a path to despair if our current beauty standards remain as is.
        Beauty standards should be about being intellectually bright. Beauty shouldn't be see as how  curvy you are, it should be seen as being able to conquer your fears and emerging a new person. Beauty should be about being different, not another doll on the shelf. Beauty to me is about being yourself even when everyone expects you to change. To take a step beyond your comfort zone, and plunge yourself into a canyon of new ideas. That is true beauty. To be able to wake up every morning, with a smile on your face. That is true beauty. Making yourself look like a plastic-doll made by workers paid less than minimum wage is not beauty. Until society realizes this, we will continue damning ourselves, and if not soon, we will forever be lost from the path of true beauty.