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“Feminism is an ongoing movement advocating for the rights and equality of all people, with a focus on women and girls.”

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“a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared. an exaggerated and unrealistic view of one's virtues and abilities.”

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Will true feminism be forever lost in the ever changing trends society strives to mimic in its attempt to be the ideal women of its time?

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“make the best or most effective use of (a situation, opportunity, or resource).”

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“an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.”

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Ugg shoes

Summer Friday Lip Balm

Standley cups

Rare Beaty blushes

Stawberry makeup

Acrylic nails

Clean girl

Scrunchies

Slime girl

it girl

Clean girl

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“requiring someone or something for financial, emotional, or other support.”

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“compliance with standards, rules, or laws.”

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“Today’s ideal woman is of a type that coexists easily with feminism in its current market-friendly and mainstream form.”

- Jia Tolentino

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“This sort of feminism has organized itself around being as visible and appealing to as many people as possible; it has greatly over-valorized women’s individual success.”

- Jia Tolentino

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“An entire industry has even sprung up to give optimization a uniform: athleisure, the type of clothing you wear when you are either acting on or signaling your desire to have an optimized life.”

- Jia Tolentino

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“It’s very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation, to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time.”

- Jia Tolentino

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“Feminism has not eradicated the tyranny of the ideal woman but, rather, has entrenched it and made it trickier.”

- Jia Tolentino

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“The ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree and perfectly competent. Is she really?”

- Jia Tolentino

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My central question focuses on the fact that the meaning of feminism is an ever changing definition based on the times. This is due to society seeking to be a part of the current trends that create this idea of an ideal woman. The ideal woman has changed throughout the years, in which various examples can be named. In the last couple of years it was the “Visco girl", today it is the “It Girl", and years ago it was the “housewife". These various examples have built off each other in some aspects and have changed in others. I say this because, as a society, we strive to live up to this ideal lifestyle and looks, derived from these examples. In the last couple of years and even today, society can attest to seeing girls participate in these trend, in which girls wear scrunchies, active wear, uggs, having Hydro Flask or Standleys, apply summer fridays balms, dye their hair red, cutting their hair a certain way ( the wolf cut), and participating in the clean girl aesthetic. By buying these products and wearing these clothing, it is a way in which girls fit into the aesthetic and lifestyle  of the ideal woman. They are unaware of the conformity of it all, and rather labels it as benign, the best version of themselves.

The desire and want to be and fit into the ideal women, isn’t necessarily good. As young girls and women strive to make themselves into the ideal woman there is, “a personal standard of perfection” they seek to attain. Following these trends, goes against an individual's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance, until it reaches the point where the person they’ve become is an exaggerated and unrealistic view of their virtues and abilities.

In all, the female gender has become dependent on these trends because it creates the ideal woman. Since human beings follow by example, many also feel obligated to follow in other womens foot footsteps, especially among the young. The rise of the Sephora girls has been an ongoing conversation in the last week. These young girls are participating in these trends that are designed for mature women. At the ages of 9-14, these kids go into stores like Sephora to purchase products that aren't age appropriate. It has become a concern nationwide, seeing that these young girls are mimicking older women, despite it not being their time to do so.

All of these issues mentioned, trails right back to feminism. The new twenty-first century  feminism has been consumed by the ideal women. Jia Tolentino, writer for the New York Times, says in her article Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman,“The ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree and perfectly competent. Is she really?” Tolentino recognizes the fakeness of the ideal woman, it is this ongoing trend that only results in harming women. Looks are very deceiving, and the ideal woman is just that. For those who don’t precipitate in being this ideal woman, they are looked down upon and shunned by other women. This goes against feminism entirely, rather than bringing other women up it is breaking women apart.