There are so many new standards that have been brought to everyone's attention like holding up a piece of paper in front of one's waist to prove his or her skinniness or the collarbone challenge. There are people everywhere who struggle to see how beautiful they actually are because of these foolish challenges.
As someone who has constantly struggled with my self-image, I frankly find these challenges to be extremely idiotic. As someone who has been told multiple times, "You're so skinny!" or "You're almost way too skinny. Are you anorexic?" I feel almost numb to comments like that. The same probably goes for girls who are a little bigger than me. I believe that people need to be more aware of what they are saying. The saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." is the biggest lie I have ever heard. Words hurt. Words are one of the most powerful weapons people have.
So many people lack the confidence they should have because of these challenges and the word that come out of people's mouths. I really do not understand why people need to drag one another down. Life is hard enough without people pointing out other people's insecurities. It is something that will need to change, but unfortunately, it will not because not many people are willing to help change anything.
A lot of people turn a blind eye to the nasty words that come out of people's mouths, whether in real life or on social media. Most people say, "It's not my problem because it wasn't said to me." A number of people, both male and female, I have had the honor of getting to meet throughout my life have told me they are afraid of wearing something or saying something because of the way society is. There is a popular tweet that has gone around a few times where a guy tweeted something along the lines of, "If you're over 130 pounds, don't wear crop tops." I think that is a ridiculous statement, but it is statements like those that make the confidence of other people go down.
People always will remember the terrible words were said to them because one awful word sticks a lot more than one thousand kind words. Just because someone does not fit the ideal 'model' body type, does not mean that person is any less beautiful. Those challenges need to be gotten rid of because they are doing a lot more harm to people than the person or people who came up with them probably realized.
People in society need to realize that their words do in fact hurt people. These challenges also hurt people, but more recently, people have been having fun with these challenges. For example, the paper challenge, a girl held up a map. I think we need to have more people realize that these challenges are ridiculous, then maybe we can move forward as a society.
