Bec Syed
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And I think that, like, it really β I mean, everyone is victim to beauty standards and things like that.
But I think that because we were born women and we are women and we have an experience as women that we will probably talk a lot about that today.
But I'm sure there are men, too, who have fallen victim to this as well.
Agreed, and statistically too.
So it's not just like, oh, I feel like, of course we feel like we are women, but statistically speaking, like when you look at the amount that maybe women spend on this kind of thing and all that kind of stuff, we can see that that actually is a thing.
So let's talk about like the double standards and how it's not only double standards.
It's like double standards when it comes to men and women, but a lose-lose situation.
Yes, exactly.
And it's like, you know, you'll hear, like, guys be like, I like a woman who's, like, natural and stuff like that.
But really, if you had a woman who's natural, it's like, oh, no, not like that.
Like, you still have to be perfect to some extent.
You have to be, like β and also the β
And we'll get into it, but like aging, how there's a big double standard there.
It's like you're kind of only relevant for a short window of time.
And so I think that like what's natural is very different to what we are fed.
And so, yeah, there is this pressure to like to be like perfectly natural in the most like
unrealistic way and that can really damage people's like, I don't know, their self-esteem.
And you get these targeted ads, you end up spending a lot of money.
And before you know it, you're just like, yeah, you're falling victim to this and you might have invested so much in it.
And it is such a double standard.