A speaker argues that social media amplifies narrow beauty standards and that the pressure to conform creates division. They push back against the term 'beauty' itself, saying everyone is inherently beautiful, and call for moving away from external validation toward self-defined ideals.
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Before I heard you, I've always thought of the stigma of beauty, that the beauty standards that are difficult, that they are showing in this world through social media and all, because you can see everything now because we're so connected more than ever with social media. Automatically, I used to roll my eyes when I hear the word beauty because we are all beautiful whether we put on makeup or not. You don't wanna look homeless if you're not homeless, But I'm just saying like the stigma of it, I think for those of us that never really stepped foot in that industry, maybe some people that are in the industry are sort of being lied to about the stigma of beauty that, oh my gosh, there's a standard and I have to be that standard in order to belong. And it's the belonging part that creates the boundary between the word beauty and the actual meaning that you personally injected into that conscious beauty movement. Yeah.