How come we are told to accept ourselves as we are but, so many judge others and expect them to change? We seem to spend a great deal of time complaining about portrayed body images yet not a lot of time developing our own. We expect them to change to fit in with our own ideals, don't we?

There is no such thing as the perfect body and there is no such thing as the most beautiful person in the world, if you think there is, you are making a judgement decision on your own preferences. 

If you think that the models are too skinny, the hair to shiny, the clothes too tight, you are also making a personal judgement decision that is only relevant to you. 

Granted, there is a lot of silicon and Photoshop involved but, *if* you truly are your own person, why would you ascribe to it. And, if you are upset because others do believe in it and chase it and want them to change, what right do you have to affect their wills?

https://i.imgur.com/ep2GTMA.jpg

This is the problem with it all isn't it? We want people to accept us for who *we are* even if they are *forced to change* to do so. We want to stop the tyranny by being tyrannical. But, how is this possible if you have accepted yourself for who you are unless, you have accepted yourself as a tyrant looking to shape the preferences of others?

Many will argue with my view on this but again, that is the judgement isn't it? Sure, I may be wrong, sure I might have ludicrous expectations but, that is the game isn't? How ludicrous is it to think that you can change a system that makes a massive amount of money from playing both sides. 

For example, we all know the 'Real women' advertising campaign for Dove and how well it has done to empower women of all body shapes. Dove is a Unilever brand, Axe is another of theirs.

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Feel empowered?

This is the problem with allowing advertising to dictate who you think you or, *anyone else* is meant to be. No brands care, they just want to make money and they will manipulate to do so. They do not care how you feel, they do not care about you at all. 

The message to accept yourself for who you are is a good one but, do not expect that anyone else *must* accept you, that is their choice. And, if you or someone else have been told by the media to not like your looks, why would this matter if you have accepted yourself? Why do you think you must be attractive to anyone else other than yourself?

The surefire way to know if someone has accepted themselves or not is how they treat others and how they attack those who do not accept them. They claim to be comfortable in their own skin but, are unhappy when someone doesn't like how their skin looks, unable to deal with criticisms. 

Like most things in this world, change takes acceptance of reality, and the reality is we all need to take a good, long, hard look into the mirror and work out exactly who *we* are without all of the manipulations, without being told what to see. To do this means to step away from *any* of the sides and rather see it all as a whole. 

The entire advertising system has been set up to section and fragment society based on illusion and scarcity. They make all things they sell seem like it is rare, whether it be the product itself, or the concept behind it and most people buy into it in some way, whether it be an ideal behind a bar of soap or the latest Iphone.
 
How can one claim individuality or acceptance of the self when all of the desires are directed by global conglomerates? When it comes to attention, it is a free market yet, people continually and repeatedly look at what they have been directed to and make their buying decisions accordingly. And then... Complain when other people choose to purchase differently.

Advertising and its consumptive subscribers live in a land of hypocrisy with every tiny group claiming that the catalogue they are reading is the correct one. It is no different to any other brainwashing, whether political, religious or nationalistic. It is a process of authority-directed division and fragmentation to say, my position is better than yours.

Do you accept it?

Taraz
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