The Super Venus: The Supposed Feminine Perfection

What do we mean when we talk about “beauty standards in women” today? What are men supposedly trying to find in feminine perfection and what are they willing to do to become a ” super Venus ” ?

What is currently considered “a beautiful woman” is far from the definition of decades and even centuries past. What then is the ideal for women? The outward appearance seems to be the most important thing at the moment and for this reason we see young people who at 20 have already had surgeries or who at 50 want to look like at 25.

The body of women in history

In the Middle Ages it was believed that a beautiful woman was one who weighed several kilos and occupied a good part of the bed. In the time of Marilyn Monroe, for example, curves were the most coveted, everyone wanted their thighs to be bulky and their breasts to attract attention under any cleavage.

But that canon of perfection has been changing to this day with the arrival of new models, as is the case of the singer Twiggy and her long legs, where a woman to be beautiful must be extremely slim and without a single curve. The slender, proportionate and careful body have nothing to do with the collective imagination of “sensuality”.

In the western society of the 21st century , magazine models are the inspiration for thousands of young ladies to make extreme diets, deprive themselves of eating what they like or spend it in the gym or in front of the mirror throughout the day. Bulimia and anorexia disorders are related to a lack of love for one’s own body and wanting to be like what is seen on television or in advertisements.

In turn, it is worth saying that the images shown by the campaigns are digitally retouched so that the female body appears “perfect” : without a wrinkle, a stretch mark or a mark… even without a navel!

Reality vs. fiction

If we start to analyze and look at women on the street, we will realize that most of them have not “reached” that sum of beauty that is tried to be achieved by all means.

Apart from the fact that the prototype of a woman that they “sell” to us is false, it is likely that most women want to have the body of the models, even if that means going under the knife, not eating all day or working hours exercise.

Super Venus: True Perfection

With a short film he tried to criticize and at the same time analyze what the standards of beauty are as the years go by. The person in charge of this project is a Frenchman named Frédéric Doazan, a specialist in animated films and known for his somewhat unusual techniques for his videos.

The short lasts less than 3 minutes and is worth watching. In that period, she makes a kind of “x-ray” of the beauty canon to which thousands of women aspire and would do anything to achieve. It is not an advertisement but an intelligent criticism of what the media makes us believe in relation to the supposed feminine perfection.

A surgeon shapes a woman’s body according to what was considered “beautiful” in each era. As these operations go by, the transformation of the model is incredible… it is not possible to recognize the young woman from the beginning.

The short film then makes it clear that “perfection” in terms of female beauty does not really exist, but is an absurd consequence of the scalpel and implants. We share the video for you to analyze it yourself:

Perfection is transforming

The search to be better and to take care of ourselves must be above all: fashions, prejudices, clothes or the comments of others. Having good eating habits, doing sports to be healthy and dressing as we feel comfortable is the true perfection.

Looking in photographs for the supposed standard of beauty is synonymous with not being happy with our own body. Letting advertising and the media tell us what our arms, legs or belly should look like is an attack on ourselves.

In this world in which the superficial is the order of the day and it is increasingly easy to access irreversible surgery (or with its consequences), understanding that we are all perfect and beautiful in our own way is an act of rebellion. Let’s be rebels then! And to enjoy our curves, centimeters and kilos as we want!