STS: using standards of beauty to manipulate others

[Oldern]

Whats wrong with being beautiful though, i like looking good when i see myself in the mirror.

Not just because people appreciate it but because i appreciate it in myself.

Empowerment is the key, people should be able to look as anything they wish to, at any given moment.

Complete control over how you look, what gender, what species and how "old".

This has nothing to do with manipulating others and everything with allowing and power of choice and freedom to be.

Uhm... liking yourself in the mirror is not bad.
Liking yourself in the mirror because you look "better" than others is just a result of an ego-based worldview.

But further down, photoshopping EVERYTHING and manipulating videos and images so that EVERY average or even good-looking man and woman feels bad about himself/herself IS horrible, and it is the standard for 4-5 decades now.

If you are immune to that, good for you