Are Catholic women required to be beautiful?

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Your attitude is something else. Suggesting I need help because I like something you don’t. What you have proposed is not Church teaching, it is your personal preference; you could change any element on your list with little thought, that’s how arbitrary it is.
 
My goodness. Do you try to be offended as a matter of course? In that post, I was being really kind and suggesting I’m out. But go ahead, choose to be offended. I can’t help that either.
 
My goodness. Do you try to be offended as a matter of course? In that post, I was being really kind and suggesting I’m out. But go ahead, choose to be offended. I can’t help that either.
I’m not offended. Saying people are offended can’t be people’s go-to when they get push-back. Do you really think suggesting I needed help because I like my distressed jeans “really kind”? Okay.
 
Exactly. That itself would be a variable that affects studies like this.
 
If you have disproportionately heavy legs than dresses are not flattering at all.
 
I saw those Instagram pictures you admire (OP) and you know I kinda think she looks like a porn start with a veil. I mean those dresses she is wearing to church are too skin tight. So, modesty is VERY important as well. Remember proverbs that says Beauty fades and charm is deceitful but a woman who FEARS the Lord shall be praised. She is the one we need to look to as an example of beauty also the virgin Mary who had purity of heart and body. God does not give each of us physical beauty but that does not mean he loves us any less. When I was younger I was a knock out. I had all kinds of boys chasing me. Now im in my mid 40’s have a tummy on me and short hair, nobody turns their head anymore. Does it make me sad? Well sometimes I wish I was still pretty but I know that God is the good Spouse and Loves me no matter what. He sees the inside which is far more precious than the outside. But i myself and trying to figure out what femininity means to me on the outside. I now veil at church I feel that is feminine. I am trying to grow my hair out which for me feels more feminine. Wear feminine colors but you know this is not the only way to go its just what I feel led to latey. Ask God and a woman you admire in the faith these questions. God bless
 
. He sees the inside which is far more precious than the outside.
I hope you apply this to the girl you just said who looks like a porn star. It’s very inappropriate to judge her like this, especially behind her back
 
According to this article 38% of Reality TV female viewers surveyed believed that a woman’s value is determined by her looks.
Is the real problem just reality TV though?
In my view,reality TV just echos society and society has had this mentality about valuing women according to their external beauty(or lack of) long before reality Tv.
Eg:before Reality TV and social media there was terms coined like ‘supermodel’ and women’s magazines like Cosmopolitan pushed this same message.
Some people think that younger generations are more beauty obsessed but I don’t think this has happened in a ‘vacuum’.
In my view,older generations can be just as focused on it but in more different ways eg:more subtle messages like telling other women that they look tired,rundown,wornout etc or bragging that they look good for their age,competing with other women on looking polished in the workplace etc…
Maybe younger generations have been exposed to these messages by older generations and therefore developed a fear of aging or loosing looks?

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(Please overlook the photo in the article if you are prone to difficulties in this area-

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/li...ts-teenage-girls-at-risk-20180807-p4zw1p.html
 
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This obsession with physical beauty is very obvious in South Korea.

Plastic surgery is big business there and a sizable number of women and men have undergone some kind of procedure.
 
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Social media kills the brain, the worst invention! I would go as far to say it has destroyed the way people once where with each other. I rarely watch tv either, the smart phone is the next hurdle for me!
 
I don’t even think she’s pretty, which shows you beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Now, she may be gorgeous on the inside, and if I knew her, her personality could influence how I see her outwardly.

No one is “required” to be beautiful on the outside. People are required to cultivate inner beauty, though.
 
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According to this article 38% of Reality TV female viewers surveyed believed that a woman’s value is determined by her looks.
I’m surprised it was only 38%. Most men will be much more helpful to an attractive woman than one who is not.
 
We are all born with a preference for the human face. This pattern recognition software built into us makes us so sensitive to human faces that we see human faces in patterns all the time.
Humans are attracted to symmetry in faces.
 
Also,while I’m not of Australian background I do live in Australia, and I have heard of some Australian men looking for Asian (Philipino,Thai) wives overseas,presumably because they find them more feminine than some Australian women?
Oh, they do that in Switzerland, too. It’s because they find Asian wives more submissive and easier to boss around. Swiss men, and women, are very bossy.
 
Good, old Leftists, always trying to break down something. Nobody’s redefining anything for me. Nobody. And nobody’s changing my perception of anything.

Beauty is not a social construct. Look at any good anatomy book (yes, there are bad ones) and you’ll see the basics. The figure and the head and hands, everything has a defined symmetry. A young lady I was dating required no makeup. One day, she showed up with a bit of mascara but applied nothing else. And femininity is inborn and then refined by the parents. God has given to men and women complementary characteristics that are different in body and behavior.

A man modified to look like a woman is still a man. The underlying bone structure has not changed.
 
A man modified to look like a woman is still a man. The underlying bone structure has not changed.
The bone structure seems to change drastically when one takes female hormones, but I think it’s the redistribution of fat. They also develop breasts and pads of fat on their hips like cis women. (I work with them, I was born a woman and am happy with being one. I’d hate to be a man!)

There are some men who look more feminine than many women. Ronen Farrow is one. Very good looking man, but could be a twin with his mom, Mia Farrow, if she were younger. Some women would do good to resemble Ronen.

Women who don’t wear make-up aren’t that uncommon. I require none. I have permanent eye make-up and lip color, though I had quite rosy lips prior. I never wear foundation or powder or blush or anything like that. No one in my family does, and we would if we needed it. We are all known for perfect skin and our lack of need for make-up. We do take good care of our skin, though. The women in my family are almost all beauty contest winners. I don’t enter, though. I think they are silly. My older sister, however, was a “Miss Brazil.”

To a certain extent, beauty is a social construct. It used to be thought that women had to be very plump to be even slightly good looking. The tall, wispy, reed-thin look that defines beauty now was totally foreign. And toned women were thought by society to be masculine. So was short hair, which is a little more acceptable now. In Asia, women aren’t thought beautiful by Asian society unless they get rid of their pretty Asian eyes and have a cosmetic surgeon make them nice and round. Big, round eyes are part of the social construct of beauty among Asians now. In general. I’m sure not every single Asian feels that way, just as I’m sure some men today don’t require every attractive woman to be six feet tall and under ninety pounds.
 
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Whenever I see stick-thin models, all I can think of is “please- get this woman some food!” From an art/photography point of view, women who would look better at their appropriate height-weight ratio are starved to appear visually taller in images. Stick thin bordering on anorexic? Those people that encourage this should be rounded up and charged with cruelty. Yes, I had one beauty contestant friend and three model beautiful friends, but they were not stick thin. One who lost several pounds to model, told me: “I feel better at my normal weight.”

As far as hormones changing bone structure, the angle of the pelvis on women is different from men. The wrists are another giveaway - they are bigger on men. I worked at a hospital that did sexual-reassignment surgery. I sat down with two surgeons who performed the procedure and they ran me through the basics. One female employee had the procedure and went on to cut her hair and grow a mustache, but the same body frame remained.
 
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Whenever I see stick-thin models, all I can think of is “please- get this woman some food!” From an art/photography point of view, women who would look better at their appropriate height-weight ratio are starved to appear visually taller in images. Stick thin bordering on anorexic? Those people that encourage this should be rounded up and charged with cruelty. Yes, I had one beauty contestant friend and three model beautiful friends, but they were not stick thin. One who lost several pounds to model, told me: “I feel better at my normal weight.”
I don’t like the stick thin look, either. I think everyone looks better at the healthy weight for their height. Men and women. I was surprised how many men bought into that construct, though. One of my sisters talked me into online dating for a short time (about two horrible weeks), and every man I spoke with immediately asked me, “Are you thin/slim/trim?” (The older ones used “trim.”) I thought, “Look at my photo! Make your own judgment. I look like that!” (Yes, I am slender and look like a typical Brazilian.)
 
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That woman on instagram is stunning. Great! We need more young Catholic women to energize the Church and remind society that we’re not all stodgy retirees!
 
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