"Women, on the other hand, are valued for their capacity to bear children and biologically, this is indicated by a youthful body especially with a slim waist. Culturally, this has translated into the extreme youth culture women are subjected to and into pornography that takes physical ideals to bizarre extremes of Barbie-doll figures. Happily, as culture advances, these simplistic and harmful stereotypes are challenged and replaced with more nuanced indicators of individual value.
Author and body positivity trailblazer, Alex Light, thinks the Internet is actually to blame for womens' desperate attempts to evade any sign of a ‘mum bod'. She says: "For decades and generations now, women have been encouraged to ‘’ after giving birth, to ‘get back into shape’, ‘drop the baby weight’ and fit back into our pre-pregnancy jeans mere weeks after giving birth.
"The prevailing message is ‘don’t look like you’ve had a baby’. And I’d like to ask: why not? What’s wrong with looking like you’ve had a baby? You have had a baby… And that’s an amazing thing that many people would absolutely love the chance to do. “What is wrong with a ‘mum bod’? Nothing. There’s nothing wrong with it, it just doesn’t fit into society’s very narrow standard of beauty that women are taught we have to uphold at whatever cost.”
She's right; whilst men are given plenty of space to reject societal standards of beauty, women have to - quite literally - fit into a narrow one.
Machismo.
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