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Since childhood, the feminine beauty ideal is shoved down girls’ throats partially through toys involving [[makeup]], fashion, and dolls manufactured to look ‘beautiful’ according to the male gaze. Fairytales, teen movies, books, are also written to subconsciously teach women to be seen as physically attractive by men. | Since childhood, the feminine beauty ideal is shoved down girls’ throats partially through toys involving [[makeup]], fashion, and dolls manufactured to look ‘beautiful’ according to the male gaze. Fairytales, teen movies, books, are also written to subconsciously teach women to be seen as physically attractive by men. | ||
These thoughts are usually permanently embedded in womens’ mind’s until death. | These thoughts are usually permanently embedded in womens’ mind’s until death. | ||
== Youth == | |||
The beauty standard imposed on women is inextricably tied to youth not for fertility, as often claimed but for its direct association with submission, inexperience, and male dominance. Across media, fashion, and pornography, the ideal woman is one who appears barely out of adolescence. She is hairless, soft-voiced, wide-eyed, nonetheless having a seemingly sexually mature body. | |||
This preference reveals a deep-rooted cultural tolerance and in many cases, celebration of pedophilic desire. It is profitable reflections of a system where the female body is more valuable the less developed, the less experienced, and the less defiant it appears. | |||