Q&A: Are standards of beauty dictated to us by the mainstream media?

Question by trer: Are standards of beauty dictated to us by the mainstream media?
Do we really make up our own minds about beauty? Or are ideas of beauty forced upon us by constant media saturation in the form of movies, TV, magazines, internet, etc.

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Answer by vanillabean
Now that you mention it..yeah. Think about it, if we didn’t have media running all over the place would we be worrying about the latest trends, fashion, makeup, ect.?

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