Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image

The fashion industry does not "set the beauty standards." Beauty standards are beauty standards because human beings are born with an inherent sense as to what "beautiful" is. It's not something you can teach or re-learn or re-establish, it just is. Sure the fashion industry needs tall thin models because the garments look better on those types of bodies, but who doesn't already know that?!?!

The idea that "the fashion industry" is responsible for making women and girls critical of their bodies is ludicrous. I've never met a woman or girl who wasn't just naturally critical of their own looks, and men don't take cues from the fashion industry for beauty standards.

The current obsession with fairness and inclusivity won't negate what people feel naturally. You can't just suddenly decide that overweight, misshapen, aged, or just aesthetically uninteresting women are all-of-a-sudden "beautiful." That's not how it works. If everyone were beautiful then nobody would be beautiful.