Do some girls start to believe they're ACTUALLY as hot as their airbrushed/photo-shopped pictures?

Plenty of people feel ugly because they compare themselves to overly filtered images taken by others - not realising its all fake.

If we could get rid of photoshop beauty standards entirely we'd all be better off - same goes for cosmetic surgeries where not medically necessary

It's constant pressure on girls and women to look as beautiful as what they see in the media especially now with the like of Instagram, hell I felt pressure in my teens and that was just from magazines that I bought every so often, now I'm in my late 30s and still feel pressure but I feel for my two teenagers who are in this era of constant Internet and social media access and even their friends telling them that looking like Kim K is something they should aim for.

I tell them everyday they are beautiful but feeling that way is not just a click the fingers cure it's mentally exhausting and I hope my daughters don't hit that stage but I hear comments sometimes from my youngest about 'online beauty'. It's a very judgemental view you have OP for something a lot of women struggle with 😔

You're definitely a 4 anyway

Do you seriously need it explained? Here are some quotes from this thread.

"the woman is trash, plain and simple"

"To them she probably IS as good as porn star material."

"Lights out at fat-camp, a jelly-bean is fillet-steak."

"every time I see her FB profile photo I just have to laugh"

"She looked absolutely awful like a yoke from a travellers wedding"

and just for good measure, this one, explaining that it's ALL women , not just irish ones.

"I don't remember characterizing any of the complainee's as being Irish."

theres a whole lot of those misogynistic abusive threads at the moment. Frothing out the mouth like rabid dogs. Probably delusions from heatstroke.

There's a conversation to be had here, but like nearly every thread on Boards today, it has to be taken over by name calling crap that stifles any conversation. What ever happened to ignoring things and getting on with it?

I hate fashion. I hate what it stands for. I hate the influence it has on the younger generation especially. I hate that we're all judged by the labels we wear and how much money we've spent on some rich persons child-labour made clothing or animal tested "beauty" products. I hate that the people who tell us what to wear are the ones who profit from us buying what they tell us to. I hate that people lap it up and give it so much attention. I hate that the current image of what a women should look like is still a sexualised barbie. I hate that this fashion is on young teenagers and even toddlers. It's a horrible, judgemental industry based on sales, sales, sales. If it disappeared tomorrow, the world would be a better place.

A girl I've known for over 20 years went from Barbie girl to natural beauty once she stopped putting on the makeup with a trowel. She was always naturally beautiful, but covered it up with layers of crap so she could look exactly like all the other barbies out there. She attracted all the wrong types of men as a result. Men prefer natural looking, only idiots prefer the barbie.

Oh no, I called them barbies, I must be misogynistic...

Define perfection.