Noor ☀️

كفاية خوف من المجتمع i find it terrifying that cosmetic procedures and surgeries have now become normal. i say this with no judgement in my heart towards the girls who do this, but a lot of judgement to our failure as a society. the beauty standard has become so unattainable and suffocating that women have begun to physically alter their appearance in a desperate attempt to get closer to it. i simply do not believe it’s a true choice. would women make the same choice in the absence of the beauty standard? in the absence of a flood of perfectly filtered and edited women on their screens? in the absence of the notion that the most important thing a woman can be is beautiful? i just don’t think that’s the case. i don’t find it empowering at all. the idea that the only way to love yourself or to be beautiful is to chase after a constantly changing standard that is, quite literally, impossible to achieve is not female empowerment. it’s a suffocating sexist notion that places the value of women in their physical beauty.