I’m so sorry that so many of you are jealous or envious. Some of you claim that we GGs feel the same way about the GGs who are prettier than we are, but you’re wrong. Most of us are not Cover Girl material, yet we are confident in who we are - in our abilities, our accomplishments, our relationships, in short just the way that we deal with the world that we live in. Most of us are not envious of someone who is curvier, younger, or prettier than we are. Because we all know that these things are just the surface. They’re just a very tiny part of what forms the essence of a person’s being.

I do however want to address this comment that I find rather insulting to women in general:

Quote Originally Posted by Patience View Post
If it feels that bad to not conform to female beauty standards as a man, how much worse must it feel to not conform to these standards as a woman? Because let's face it, a great number of women don't.
According to who? You?

You don’t seem to realize that we all have different beauty standards. Yours, apparently, or at least according to your avatar, is long, curly hair, tons of makeup including red, red lipstick, and big boobs.

Please believe me when I say that this is NOT the average woman’s beauty ideal … else she’d certainly be wearing the red, red lipstick, boob enhancers and hair extensions, together with short dresses and stilettos, or whatever you’re wearing in that pic that is not shown.

I personally feel that the epitome of beauty is being natural. Unadorned. Long or short hair. Blue jeans or a dress. And certainly not wearing makeup to the point where it looks as if she is wearing makeup. I think a woman is beautiful when she likes herself for who she is.

As to your claim that the cosmetics industry addresses "those needs" (what needs … women who don’t look like the way you want them to?), women indeed are increasingly wearing less or no makeup, precisely because they don’t feel there’s any need to wear it.

https://civicscience.com/makeup_is_losing_its_luster/

And have you heard of Melisa Raouf? She is the first ever finalist in the Miss England beauty pageant to compete without wearing any makeup at all. It’s about time and good for her!! It has always irritated me when some people did not consider women beautiful unless these women hid who they naturally were behind a fake face and hair that was put through a tortuous regime just so it would conform to someone else’s beauty standards. Not fair, when handsome men would be considered gorgeous just for appearing as they were!