Expectations
Mid 1900s Girls To 2021 Girls
Expectations, girls who try to be normal can’t be
Even normal has its expectations
Models can’t have a normal lifestyle
They are all caught up in how they should look
They are starving themselves
Staying on unhealthy diets
Just for a photoshoot
That is going to be photoshopped to a “perfection”
Women in the 1950s to 1960s to now
Have expectations that don’t vary much
Wear makeup, have a flat stomach, and be happy
If you’re skinny, you’re anorexic they say
If you’re bigger boned, you’re fat
There is no happy medium
Society won’t allow women to be happy
Truly happy
The ads you see for weight loss diets
“Take this pill, and you will be pretty again!”
Even though the money you’re making off that pill
Is sustaining YOU…
It’s tearing women apart from feeling self conscious
Women see those ads and part of them is excited to change
The other part of these women feel ashamed at themselves for how they look currently
People take things differently
Some don’t come back normal
After seeing ads or posts about losing weight
Some end up so self conscious
They end up on feeding tubes in hospitals
Some die
That is what society is doing to our women
Society makes women end up hating themselves
For who they naturally are
Women have a hard time wondering
If they should put on makeup
Before walking outside to get the mail
To feel so much pain and hatred towards yourself
It’s a shame
We all need to rewrite society's standards
Make people more accepting of others
Because…
No matter your size, your looks,
You will always be you
You might as well embrace being you
Adding plastic to your body thinking it will help you will make you more physically and mentally unhealthy
Changing yourself to be other people's definitions
Of pretty is a waste of time
Be your own definition of pretty