Because the cosmetics industry spends billions of dollars a year yelling at women that they aren't good enough.

They're working the same bullshit on boys too (publicly) for the last 20 years.

Because society tells attractive women our value is primarily being attractive and losing that is scary since most people aren’t willing to give up the only thing that makes them valuable

1). Society tells women they need to do things “preventively” to avoid becoming hideous goblins in a few years. That’s why you see 22 year olds getting Botox - they have been told they have to start paying NOW to avoid wrinkles

2). Hollywood and entertainment media have normalized unrealistic standards. And you can’t become a newcomer in that space without conforming to the employable look

3). Gossip media loves to pick apart any millimetre of fat (“Is ______ pregnant? Click to see her baby bump!”) or photo taken in bad lighting (“What is wrong with ______ ‘s health, click to see what our medical specialists have to say”). And then they love to chastise people after they give into plastic surgery (“Click to see ______’s terrible nose job, why DID she do it??”)

Billions of dollars are made making women feel shitty. Nobody is going to let that cash go because morals.

Oh boy a thread about women's bodies, I'm sure this will be a civil and rational discussion and definitely won't have misogynistic views throughout the entire thing.

Why do people keep inventing ways to make people feel insecure about their appearances? Because there is a lot of money in it, comrade.

Dude my gorgeous friend 38 getting filler. Now looks like she's ate some shellfish she's allergic to.

Keeps getting it every 6 months or so.

Just awful.

I can't tell her cause that will make her feel even worse.

God I hope she stops. I'm angry at the advertisement and grifters that convinced her she needed it.

We are both millennials. Aka ageless women. None of us even look our age anyway. And she's thinking she needs to fix her perfect face.

Idk. I just reject all that nonsense. I'm ready to experience this whole life. I want to be an older woman when I'm older. I don't want to be one way forever. Boring.

But culture tells women they are worthless when they are less fuckable. I hate it.

Insecurity :(

Not a woman, so I could be full of shit. It does seem to me that women face much more pressure to be conventionally attractive, especially in image-intensive jobs like acting.

I lost about 100lbs on a prescription similar to ozempic. The world is much kinder to me now. I got a promotion, more hours working, society is friendlier and kinder. I would recommend anyone considering it talk to their doctor.

I dunno, I think the tides of public opinion are shifting on ozempic. Mostly because of how absolutely awful being fat is on your body. Though, where it's priced now it's going to remain a designer drug for vain, rich assholes with a touch of sour grapes for everyone else.

In my own opinion I wouldn't even put it in the same category as those others.

Self hatred is an industry. The manosphere is one part, and the beauty industry is the other - both trying to make you hate yourself and then sell you the cure. It's emotional and psychological grifting.

Patriarchy

e: Some dudes apparently can't take accountability and they gotta downvote me to prove their point

Insecurity will poison every aspect of your life

Social media is brain poison. That's why, that's the reason.

I kind of hate that this implies “ugly” women will not be judged here for using the same beauty procedures as already attractive women.

Not to mention that these beauty procedures are also sought out by men.

My wife has been getting GLP-1 ads constantly. She weighs 110 lb and has struggled with anorexic tendencies since she was a teenager. Consumerism has no conscience.

Seems like a lot of the time they're doing it for other women.

body dysmorphia happens