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By making white women the standard of beauty, specifically skinny white women, the beauty industry made natural girls feel inadequate. Furthermore, they set up false expectations for boys and men, which impacted how they interacted with girls and women.

White Women Shouldn’t Be Our Standard Of Beauty
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Dr. Allison Wiltz

Tessa Char
Jul 22, 2021

Preach. It's all media messaging and mindsets that are so entrenched in our brains that we need to get rid of.

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Tessa Char
Tessa Char

Written by Tessa Char

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(W)righting the wrongs in the world in justice, feminism, dating, self-help, travel, mental health, and well-life. https://linktr.ee/tessachar

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