• phonics@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    My favorite people, and probably yours too are not 10/10 hotties. The people I want to spend time with are funny and kind.

    Chasing ‘beauty standards’, I feel, is a waste of your human potential. That time can be better used building friendships and community. Isn’t that what most people really want?

    If people focused their time there instead, maybe they would feel more accepted, confident and worthy instead of trying to shortcut their way to perceived success by altering their bodies. I find it sad that the digital age has pushed humanity so deeply in to ‘comparative society’.

    Confidence is the hottest most attractive thing to me in the end.

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      11 hours ago

      It can go too far in the opposite direction, though. I was raised in an environment where men doing literally anything besides showering a bit was gay.

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        23 minutes ago

        Arguably, being muscular is a male beauty standard. I would very much prefer it if men had more freedom of expression, though.