Very few ladies confess to feeling good about their bodies and their selves in general. In fact, a lady wants to be constantly reassured that she looks good. I like it when someone tells me they like my shoes, my dress or how I’ve done my hair. Especially the hair part. But we sometimes do it wrongly; like using Facebook or Instagram likes to approve self-beauty. Sadly, there are some ladies who would delete their Facebook photos if they fail to get as many number of likes as they expected.
Wait, it doesn’t just end there. I remember sometime back when I would try on ten different dresses before I could finally settle on one. I thought I bought these dresses because they were good. Did they turn ugly all over a sudden? The sad part is that the latter one would be the “ugliest” among the ten. But I finally learnt to put on any dress with a touch up of confidence. There was a time when Kim Kardashian, the ladies’ favorite fashion icon, claimed not to have anything to put on despite the huge closet full of designer dresses.
Women are constantly faced with the pressure to look good all, the time. Men know this too well when they have to wait for their lady for a further 20 minutes in the mirror when going on a date. Girls as young as seven are not left behind. You’ll probably notice the new Christmas fashion trends with this group of girls. And by the way these feelings are far more prevalent among teenagers and young women.
The only disadvantage with women’s appearance is when they have to be judged more on how they look rather than their abilities. 47% of women believe their looks held them back most of the time.
Lack of body confidence not only stops women from wearing certain clothes but it sometimes limits them on how they socialize.
Girlguiding has launched a social media challenge to the public to compliment the young women and girls they know on their achievements and personal qualities rather than their looks, using the hashtags #youareamazing and #girlsattitudes on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Dr Carole Easton, chief executive of the Young Women’s Trust, which recently published a research suggesting high levels of anxiety and despair among young women, agreed more needed to be done to tackle gender stereotypes, starting from childhood.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: “No girl should be held back in life just because of her gender.
I would encourage all ladies from a tender age to read the book The Beauty Myth, which gives insights on how the community forces young women to believe that their worth as a human being directly correlates with their ability to attain what is too often an unattainable standard of beauty.
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