Yes-—but the perceptions of “what is beautiful” is laid down by the culture. Our cultures is presenting unattainable (if you stay healthy) goals to girls which destroy their health and eating. The comparison which is necessary when you are growing up-—you have to have role models and ideals—warps their perceptions of beauty.
These perceptions are destroying many girls. (Homosexuals care most about lust—not about what they do to societies. They are immoral by their very actions of demeaning their own bodies and that of others.) They despise women and don’t care if they destroy them-—in fact, they would like that world as long as boys were being supplied to them.
Culture always affects perceptions and attitudes. That is why the culture is important in civil societies. We have allowed our culture to be taken over by a few Marxists who control all MSM and the schools to determine what those “ideals” are.
Parents (if they are good) need to protect their children from much of the current culture because Marxists have been destroying the ideas of Virtue since the 50’s-—starting with the flooding our culture with the ideas of Kinsey the pedophile and Hugh Hefner—the ideas of people whom objectify human beings and use them for demeaning purposes.
Virtue needs to be promoted in healthy societies. Ours is very sick and corrupt. This is written about at length by many authors-—in documenting the destruction of our schools and institutions-—takeover by the Fabian socialists to destroy Christianity and the Natural Family—the two pillars of Western Civilization. John Dewey took the major step in starting indoctrination into moral relativism and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. established our legal system so that it would be Rule of Man instead of Rule of Law—so chaos and obscenity would be promoted.
I have a few thoughts.
Granted, this is coming from a guy who is overweight. However, I think there are two sides to this whole thing and both have some merit.
Yes - we’re fatter than we used to be, but yes, I also think the “ideal” is smaller, not necessarily weight-wise, but body type wise, than it used to be, most models do have a more boyish and thin shape than they used to.
However, I think a basic point of all this is simple. There are some women who do naturally have a larger or curvier body type and that is also beautiful, and that many women cannot and will not ever be a thin boyish waif as it’s not in their bone structure, genetics, or natural build. That’s not the same as saying that everyone should weigh 350 lbs either.