“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire

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If an alien from another planet took a scroll through Instagram, they might assume that nearly all humans have the same facial features and body type. Tiny noses, slim waists, large lips and hollow cheeks seem to be on trend at the moment. But we all know that there are billions of us on this planet, representing billions of different ways to be beautiful.

Reddit users have recently been calling out current beauty standards that they can’t seem to wrap their minds around, so we’ve gathered some of their thoughts below. Enjoy scrolling through this list that will remind you just how arbitrary these standards are, and keep reading to find an interview with Valerie Monroe of How Not to F*ck Up Your Face!

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Those long fake nails.

I dont know a single dude that thinks its attractive.

I understand painting your nails, or leaving them to be a little longer, but those talons that people walk around with just make me feel yucky.

Wajina_Sloth , Steve Jurvetson Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Giant eyelashes that will make you take flight if you flutter them fast enough.

Striving_Hermit:

My husband hates the long fake eyelash look, and he asked me why women wear them when men don't particularly like them.

I thought it would be funny, so I told him it's not about impressing men but about asserting one's dominance on another woman.

He believed me and now tells all his friends that it's an 'alpha-female' thing, hahaha.

TitsMcGhee99 , cornflakegirl_ Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire What people do to their lips is wild to me.

Purples_A_Fruit , Sam Moghadam Khamseh Report

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To gain more insight on this topic, we reached out to Valerie Monroe. Valerie was formerly a beauty director at O, The Oprah Magazine, for nearly 16 years, and has since created the newsletter How Not to F*ck Up Your Face, which provides "philosophical and practical advice for anyone who’s ever looked into a mirror." She was also kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda about beauty standards and where they came from in the first place.

"Actually, there are lots of kinds of beauty standards, which vary depending on the culture that produced them," Valerie noted. "What we see in the West is mostly a Eurocentric beauty standard, which, for women prizes light, clear skin, long hair, light, wide-set eyes, a small nose and chin and a small, full mouth. It's biased against variations of that standard and presents an impossible ideal for most women. Interestingly, it also mimics the features of a baby."

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Butt implants. Just looks nasty as hell.

PureDeidBrilliant , Vanessa Blaylock Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Excessive makeup. When people put so much c**p on they look like they are wearing a mask, not a face.

TheQuarantinian , Ahmad Ebadi Report

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185points

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keyboardtek 1 year ago

My wife always said the best makeup job is one where men cannot tell you have on any makeup.

96points

Annymoose 1 year ago

We're allowed to not wear makeup. Maybe I think some of these fads are silly but we can do what we want.

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Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)

One of the best compliments I ever got was when a guy friend said "Upstaged doesn't wear makeup and she looks good that way". I was in fact wearing quite a bit of makeup - he just couldn't tell. Another great compliment I got from a guy was after my brother saw me in a play and said "if I didn't know you I'd have thought you were really good!" :) For him that was telling me I'm awesome. LOL

9points

Boopasnoot 1 year ago

In my experience, they can't usually tell unless it's a full glam or drag style.

7points

Nitka Tsar 1 year ago

Say „people“ instead of „men“ and your statement will be alright

4points

Mrs. EW 1 year ago

Definitely

4points

Samara Morgan 10 months ago

Men are too oblivious to recognize make-up.

1point

Nykky 1 year ago

Exactly. Makeup is supposed to accentuate your features, not form them. Contour is different, just making up your face is supposed to be subtle

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Minneapolis Baker 1 year ago

Yeah the ones where you can't tell someone's wearing makeup they're wearing just as much makeup as the glam girlies...

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neytjie 1 year ago

Well if you commit a crime you can just wash off your make up and no one will recognize you

16points

laura smith 1 year ago

The photo above is filtered. So many women use heavy filters in their photos for whatever reason, they don't even look like themselves. I watched a comedian once say that you women need to use a natural photo once in a while, cuz you ever go missing, no one could find you cuz they wouldn't recognize you.

11points

Lorraine 1 year ago

That is for illustration only to accompany the statement.

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MarvinsMom 1 year ago

Is this whole list just what men like in women? yikes.

7points

Faerie Fox 1 year ago

More like what men say they like in women and then go back on 😭

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Pyla 1 year ago

Hey bored panda, I hate these excessively judgy threads. She's wearing make up for a photoshoot.

6points

I just work here 1 year ago

I've had co-workers who wear more makeup than this...no photoshoot involved..

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Julia Atkinson 1 year ago

Just squeeze the left earlobe and the whole face pops out on hinges

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Phillip Spicer 1 year ago

I call it cake face too much icing

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robin aldrich 1 year ago

Yeah, the "Smoky Eye"...to the extreme.

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R41PH3A1 1 year ago

Ain't no way Bored Panda censored c**p.

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Minneapolis Baker 1 year ago

Yeah I'm going to tell you right now those girlies that look like they don't have any makeup on are probably wearing more makeup than some of the people who have glam makeup on... They're not doing it to impress anyone but other people who like makeup and get over yourselves.

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Jude Laskowski 1 year ago

That dark lip liner must go.

1point

Julian Slate 1 year ago

Why are both of these takes weirdly sexist so far...

1point

Antony Aston 10 months ago

They've been watching too much Drag Race

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Mr. Meeseeks 11 months ago

Is this site run by Ned Flanders? C**p gets the **??? Come on, lighten up bored panda prudes.

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Mickey s 1 year ago

if it looks like you’re not wearing any then why wear it never understood the whole ‘ natural ‘ look , yup - blue eye lids are oh so natural

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Shiva Ho 1 year ago

Fake Up is for Skanks!

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Shiva Ho 1 year ago

Fakeup is just gross 🤮🤢

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Lezbiwitch 1 year ago

Some people prefer a mask

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Robyn Marsden 1 year ago

for that mannequin/sex doll aesthetic

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Androgyny Lunacy 1 year ago

And people think they look good.. when they actually kinda look scary.

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wayne whitson 1 year ago

MORE SPACKLE!! Hand her a trowel.

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El Howard 1 year ago

The picture illustrates one of my turnoffs: blues and greens on one's face looks really unatural! Eye shadow is supposed to mimic the telltale signs of sexual arousal, hence should be pink or light purple. Likewise, blush is mimicing natural blushing. I don't have a good explanation for lipstick...

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago

that's the idea

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Julie Hopkins 1 year ago

Agree. Especially this much when just popping out to walmart

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Jellybean the Jellyfish(they/them) 1 year ago

I feel like using makeup for beauty purposes is pointless since were all beautiful. But, if you like it, just continue doing it.

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L. Murphy 1 year ago

I know. They look so contoured, they look like they are doing drag.

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Courtney Christelle 1 year ago

It’s make up, not face paint.

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Michael None 1 year ago

This 10000000% this. If you paint your face you become a clown.

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Ima Manimal 1 year ago

Or a cartoon character

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86 1 year ago

I don't wear makeup

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Red_panda 1 year ago

How about ANY makeup? Time for society to stop telling women they need makeup to be attractive, because NEWSFLASH, we don't. I'm so tired of women paying exorbitant prices for makeup just because they feel like they need it.

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Couragetcd 1 year ago

I might put on a little eye shadow and liner and lip gloss to go out every once in a while, but my clean face is perfectly fine for day to day

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Stupid eyebrows that look like perfectly angled stencils is a shade way too dark for their complexion. Like blond girls with 2 black geometric boomerangs on her forehead.

RelevantLie-2297:

Thick eyebrows, like caterpillars crawling across your forehead.

montanagrizfan , Marco Verch Professional Report

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We were also curious about how beauty standards change over time. "There are variations in the Eurocentric beauty standards mentioned above, but they're minor," Valerie noted. "For example, Coco Chanel introduced the acceptability of tanning the skin, as opposed to maintaining a pale complexion, which had been a sign of wealth and privilege."

"After she accidentally became tanned on the Riviera, tanning became a sign of wealth and privilege," she went on to explain. "Around the same time, women began cutting off their long hair into boyish bobs, which became standard for a certain class. But I believe the impossible Eurocentric ideal has persisted in spite of recent efforts to include more cultural variation."

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire The fact that a huge portion of the world's population has successfully brainwashed itself into thinking that the Kardashians/Jenners are the epitome of beauty to the point that many are willing to imitate whatever moronic thing they do to their bodies is just wild to me.

InsomniacYogi:

It’s called the 'Instagram face' and it’s a legit phenomenon that is being studied by psychologists. It’s doing so much harm to people’s self-esteem and self-concept. We aren’t all supposed to look the same.

Tough_Stretch , kardashians Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Any plastic surgery that makes random women look like they're all related. At one point we'll all start to think thin lips and big noses are hot solely because they'll stand out in a sea of copy/paste people.

Intelligent-Guide-48 , AFAR AHMED Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Men that have soo much muscle. Obviously it’s very attractive to be in shape but I’m just not attracted to men that have arms the size of two watermelons with the fattest veins ever popping out of their arm. And I also feel like men with a lot of muscle tend to look shorter.

I think men that still have like some abs and some muscle but aren’t looking like the Incredible Hulk are the most attractive.

Pretend-Ostrich-9602 , Aaron Brogden Report

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As far as the best way to fight these arbitrary beauty standards, Valerie says "not complying with or falling for the beauty marketing that preys on our yearning and our desire to compete for an ideal that's unattainable for most of us anyway—in other words, ignoring the constant messaging we get that we're not pretty enough, thin enough, young enough, etc." can help. "The best way to combat limiting beauty standards is to ignore them," she added.

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire My wife works at a tanning salon. She has a few customers that literally get a tan every day. One of them has already gone through cancer treatment, that didn't stop her from continuing. I'm convinced a few of them are dealing with mental health issues.

PM_ME_YOUR_ART_PLZ , Marco Verch Professional Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire I’m from Stockholm. A lot of girls, particularly from rich areas, like to use so much fake tan that they are orange, and bleach their hair from what was usually dark blonde to platinum blonde. Then they style it to make it voluminous (which is easy to do because their hair is dead from all the dyeing) and apply lots of make-up, which typically includes black mascara or fake lashes. So, a lot of girls here bear a striking resemblance to Miss Piggy. There’s nothing wrong with looking like this, I just don’t understand it.

WhereMyEelAt , Jess Loiterton Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Overlined lips. Stop. We can see where you're lip really is. It just looks really unfortunate.

SunflowerSeed33 , Ali Pazani Report

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Valerie also urges readers to resist becoming consumed with trying to meet these unattainable standards. "Beauty standards are especially pernicious because they're inextricably tied to the images we see on social media, WHICH AREN'T REAL," she told Bored Panda.

"That means that meeting today's standards of beauty is impossible. It's much more productive and healthier to learn how to see yourself without objectification, which will allow you to see yourself the way you see other people, without constantly scanning your face for flaws," Valerie says. "Then beauty standards will lose their meaning for you... And life will take on more."

If you'd like to hear more wise words from Valerie on this topic, as well as many others, be sure to check out her newsletter How Not to F*ck Up Your Face!

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Dentist: So what shade of veneer would you like?

Veneer patient: I'd like refrigerator white please.

OkFinanc , Anna Shvets Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Those grossly buff guys on all dating shows. They all look like Gaston from beauty and the beast and I hate it so much I don’t even watch those shows but the lack of variety is appalling.

toedplatypus , Arthur Edelmans Report

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99points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Fake breasts. Especially the super large ones.

bootycakes23 , Jernej Graj Report

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99points

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#16

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Contouring noses until they look like a line and a dot. Will never make sense to me.

eldritchangel , Aidette Cancino Report

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97points

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#17

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire The overly sculpted beard trend. You known when the beard is trimmed and looks like it was outlined in concealer? Neatening up is nice but a sudden pale line as a border around your stubble... looks like it was airbrushed on and not touched up.

hecatemoonshadow , Brock Wegner Report

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96points

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#18

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Ski slope/button nose. they are cute but not everyone’s face is meant to have that type of nose and it doesn’t look good on everyone and it sucks seeing so many young girls on tiktok get nose jobs and all have the exact same nose.

DepressionBarbie_ , Columbia Pictures Report

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95points

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#19

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Super skinny My favourite part of my wife, (besides the obvious) is the small push out of baby fat on her waistline just under her belly button. She’s had two kids and that little piece there to me is absolutely dynamite.

unconformities , Karolina Grabowska Report

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95points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Idk if I’d call this a standard but the hair style of “shaved all around with like six inches in a small patch on top” has never looked good to me on men or women. It’s not a hair style I really understand.

IAmThePonch , Maksim Goncharenok Report

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92points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Moustaches on men are popular now, I think they're ugly especially on young men.

W3dnesdayAddamsStan , cottonbro studio Report

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89points

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#22

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire People in India will choose an unattractive fair skinned girl over a darker skinned girl who’s objective beautiful. This is why they get better treatment in Hollywood than Bollywood. Fair skin is a MASSIVELY inflated beauty standard and people ruin their perfectly good skin over it.

There are some things that are objectively beautiful based on studies: Teeth, Specific Facial Features, Leanness, etc. There isn’t much evidence to support that fairer skin is more beautiful.

NotTooShahby , cottonbro studio Report

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89points

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#23

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Clearly photoshopped pictures and weird posing angles.

chemistryofacarcrash , Anil Sharma Report

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81points

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#24

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Buccal fat removal.

loxagos_snake:

Ugh, this one makes me physically cringe.

Like, you are literally removing a baseline later of fat that is supposed to be there, and AFAIK it's f**king permanent.

I understand being overweight and wanting to get rid of excess fat, but a little roundness around the cheeks is generally considered attractive and makes you look youthful.

Groundbreaking-Duck , Ron Lach Report

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80points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire People who wear clothes that are too small. Just wear clothes that fit. You'll look a lot better.

Stunning_Patience_78 , Alena Darmel Report

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77points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Liked in my case, but foot binding in china. Insane amounts of lifelong pain inflicted on children from a young age, just to have the hope of marrying into a better family.

Horse_F*cker666 , Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Report

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74points

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#27

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Laminated, combed-up, thick a*s eyebrows. Why.

KrustyKohn:

Yes! This is the one I was going to say. It is such a strange beauty trend to me that I've noticed in the past couple years. Granted, I do come from a time where eyebrows were plucked into a high arch. I think people should just leave their eyebrows be for the most part. I can understand plucking, waxing, or trimming very bushy eyebrows or a uni-brow, but combing the hairs straight up and plastering them to your forehead just doesn't look good.

comoshnyee , Stephanie Lima Report

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71points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Overly perfect veneers.

HeathenHumanist:

One of my Facebook friends already has good teeth but then she went and got veneers. Now her teeth are just...too big and too BRIGHT.

doublexxchrome , Kamal Hoseinianzade Report

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#29

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire The entire face filled drastically to eliminate all wrinkles, making a person's face look like it belongs to a body that weighs 50 pounds more.

Scott43206 , Vlad Egorov Report

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#30

“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Circumcision…….a gross and unethical thing that needs so stop

And this should count because in the U.S. most are done purely for cosmetic and not religious reasons….. not that either excuse should be considered reasonable

Ban-Circumcision-Now , Anna Shvets Report

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61points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Some of you confuse beauty trends for beauty standards. I find the requirement of being lean, as in, low body fat, to be stupid. Body fat is so demonized at this point, some lower back fat is now considered gross. Having some fat on your body means you actually consume enough food, so your organs can function properly. The obsession with <10% body fat is unhealthy. And whoever once got that lean knows how your bodily functions just drop after you do. Nothing is attractive about low energy, hormonal disregulation and sexual apathy.

WrongdoerAncient8877 , Tim Samuel Report

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Grinding canine teeth flat. A dentist once took me aside and told me that he could grind mine down, flat, make it a really good smile.

I said "no, thanks" but was thinking "why in the _f**k_ would I do that‽"

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#33

High heels. They f**k your feet/ankles up.

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I’m not sure of the name for it, but the style of makeup that was really popular in the late 2010s and still kinda is. The one with the cakey foundation, overdrawn nude lips, eyebrows way too thick and dark, clearly trying to emulate the Kardashians. I’m sorry but I have never seen that look good on anyone.

I also really hate the 70s/80s haircuts that Gen Z is into, especially those mullets and “wolf cuts.” Going to a hair salon nowadays is a nightmare because stylists can’t fathom that not everyone wants layers or bangs or tons of volume.

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18points

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Every nose looking exactly the same.

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire That thing where girls glue strands of hair to their foreheads.

SaffronSnow , Rapunzel of Sweden Report

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I am not a fan of very defined abs. I get that it’s REALLY impressive and a lot of hard work and I certainly admire that, but aesthetically I personally find them lumpy and off-putting.

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#38

I’ve never understood the appeal of nose piercings. This is just my personal thing but it just looks distracting and painful (obviously in my head I know it’d not actually painful, but subconsciously I see this metal thing going through someones nose and it makes me wince.)

But hey, some people are into it so more power to them. 🤷‍♂️

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire I hate the long beard, lumberjack look.

0nlyhalfjewish , dogadakisakal Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire I do not understand why people think tattoos are attractive.

LoveWaffle1 , Hung Pham Report

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#41

Thigh gaps..like why is that specifically a thing.

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#42

I find blonde to be the least attractive or most boring hair color. Yellow blonde being the worst.

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#43

Tattooed oops, micro bladed eyebrows.

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#44

Bright concealer under the eyes. Makes people look insane.

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Men who shave or wax everywhere, especially the chest, arms or legs. Like to me there is nothing more attractive than a hairy chest.

Hairless body, veneers, sleeve tattoos, orange tan and Gucci bumbag is the uniform of a f**k boy.

littletuna11 Report

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“Makes Me Physically Cringe”: 30 People List Beauty Standards That Need To Retire Being totally hairless.

Rrmack , Angela Roma Report

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Sedona 1 year ago

This list is appalling and the comments under the pictures aren't any better.

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

BoredPanda has sadly become a pretty really mean and toxic place anymore. If you can believe it, this site actually started as a "family-friendly" website that posted artwork from new artists and posted fun articles about uplifting news. It truly frustrates me that BoredPanda staff have writer and editor in their titles when they just copy-and-paste nasty stuff like this.

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

Wow, what a disgusting article BoredPanda. What the hell is up with this site anymore? How about we stop objectifying people's bodies?

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Carl 1 year ago

I thought the premise of this article was noting objectifying trends that are otherwise pointless?

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ConstantlyJon 1 year ago

Jesus Christ what the f**k is this article?

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day light 1 year ago

it's kinda weird how comments against women are a lot higher ranked than comments against men. the first comment I saw about men in this post genuinely surprised me because I wasn't expecting to see any directly against men, only things like "silly women and their silly makeup" and gender neutral things

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frederic eeckman 1 year ago

I always thought bored panda was a safe space because people were mostly kind to each other and non judgemental. Until I read that article. It's vile.

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

BoredPanda hasn't been a safe spot for over three years. Ever since the pandemic this site has turned into a really toxic place. BoredPanda used to pride itself on being a family-friend site, now they censor all of their users yet still have some of the worst trolls I've ever seen on a site. They also no longer write their own content and copy-and-paste listicles (without editing) from Reddit. It's pretty sad. What's even sadder as articles like this bring in the trolls.

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Julie Stevens 1 year ago (edited)

This was really toxic. Those person's fake lips hurting me? No? None of my business. That person bulked up beyond understanding; Is that hurting me, or hindering me from living my own best life? No? Then I have zero say. I can silently judge and make all the assumptions I want on why they made those choices, but at the end if the day? I still won't know what to make for supper, and the laundry keeps piling up.

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Jon Steensen 1 year ago (edited)

Well I think that the issue is that if nobody speaks up, you can get these kinds of selfsustaining feed back loops, where a lot of people do some horrible things to their body, because they think that other people will then find it more attractive, when in fact it not like that at all. If you want to modify your body because it makes you feel better that is one thing, but if a girl get some big fake boobs, and gets all the trouble (back pain, difficulty in finding clothes that fit, them bouncing around and tugging on her body when she runs etc.) and the large pricetag that comes with them, only to be disapointed that she still cannot find a partner who like a living plastic-fantastic-barbie-doll, then I think that she would be better of if someone had corrected her by telling her their honest opinion about what they find attractive and what they are not so fond of. ...and the same goes for the girls who starve themselves to death, due to a misguided ideal that the skinnier they get, the more attractive they will become, when infact most men like some curves, and don't find the walking skeleton look particularly sexy.

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BlindAres 1 year ago

This list is complete 💩. How someone dresses/accessorizes/uses personal choices doesn't have to appeal to you. It has to appeal to the person wearing it.

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Hakunamawhatnow 1 year ago

Too much sour grapes and insecure people in this post.

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Lovemyisland ️ 1 year ago

I mean, all of these sound more like personal preferences. Because what one person may find criinge, someone else might find pretty.

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DB 1 year ago

Man bun or, as I like to call it, a douche knot.

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Panda Guy 1 year ago

Jerk k**b

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Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago

Some of these are understandable. Others are just plain petty.

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Casey Payne 1 year ago

bi·zarre - adjective/ very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement. This article didn't quite reach the low bar of bizarre, but they did manage to air out the judgements of shallow grumps. Except for 2 of them that thought foot binding and circumcision are somehow elective surgeries on the same level of butt lifts and nose jobs.

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Jon Steensen 1 year ago

I am surprissed that those earlope expanding earrings is not mentioned in here. It was clearly a fashion thing, and making permanent changes to your body just to fit into a fashion trend is in my honest opinion a stupid thing to do (what are you gonna do when that look becomes outdated and unpopular?). To be honest I have always thought they looked awful, and considered it be part of a culture that was fit for native tribes, not white people in an office job. ...and the same goes for tribal or other types of fashion tatoos. It is ok to get inked with something that means something to you, e.g. your children's names (though I would never use my body as a canvas myself), but stay away from the "cheap" fashion stuff, because you couldn't come up with something better. But that was just my personal opinion, it is your body and you can do what you want with it.

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Lara Verne 1 year ago

Thin eyebrows bad, thick eyebrows bad. Got it.

1point

Rostit. . 1 year ago

Thank goodness, I'm just naturally ugly.

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Roli Bee 1 year ago

Well, that was a little toxic.

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Barbara Baldwin 1 year ago

I like this post

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Cat Houston 1 year ago

I'd agree with all of it. Huge lips, eyebrows, fake lashes, nails, the BBL thing is just nuts. It's almost all to imitate the Kardashians, which is appalling.

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Emerald Udoh 1 year ago

Whats also funny is the fact people can do what they want with their body, without needing the backlash

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lla 1 year ago

As a sculptor, I am strongly put off with all those over surgicated faces. Series and films look like exhibitions of bad art.

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Julian Slate 1 year ago

Aside from a handful of good ones, most of these seem to be in favor of beauty standards more than against them...

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Bogdan Chelariu 1 year ago

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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago

Nobody expects your support, dude. Not when it comes to anyone's body

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Sedona 1 year ago

This list is appalling and the comments under the pictures aren't any better.

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

Wow, what a disgusting article BoredPanda. What the hell is up with this site anymore? How about we stop objectifying people's bodies?

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Carl 1 year ago

I thought the premise of this article was noting objectifying trends that are otherwise pointless?

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ConstantlyJon 1 year ago

Jesus Christ what the f**k is this article?

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day light 1 year ago

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frederic eeckman 1 year ago

I always thought bored panda was a safe space because people were mostly kind to each other and non judgemental. Until I read that article. It's vile.

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

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Julie Stevens 1 year ago (edited)

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Jon Steensen 1 year ago (edited)

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BlindAres 1 year ago

This list is complete 💩. How someone dresses/accessorizes/uses personal choices doesn't have to appeal to you. It has to appeal to the person wearing it.

5points

Hakunamawhatnow 1 year ago

Too much sour grapes and insecure people in this post.

5points

Lovemyisland ️ 1 year ago

I mean, all of these sound more like personal preferences. Because what one person may find criinge, someone else might find pretty.

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DB 1 year ago

Man bun or, as I like to call it, a douche knot.

4points

Panda Guy 1 year ago

Jerk k**b

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Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago

Some of these are understandable. Others are just plain petty.

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Casey Payne 1 year ago

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Jon Steensen 1 year ago

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Lara Verne 1 year ago

Thin eyebrows bad, thick eyebrows bad. Got it.

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Rostit. . 1 year ago

Thank goodness, I'm just naturally ugly.

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Roli Bee 1 year ago

Well, that was a little toxic.

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Barbara Baldwin 1 year ago

I like this post

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Cat Houston 1 year ago

I'd agree with all of it. Huge lips, eyebrows, fake lashes, nails, the BBL thing is just nuts. It's almost all to imitate the Kardashians, which is appalling.

0points