Weight As A Beauty Standard

I’ve recently gotten more involved with weight and height and how it affects health and what’s normal because I gained a bit of weight and felt fat, but I’m actually the bare minimum for my height and age range.

This situation made me really pay attention to what other people weigh and the weight standard as a whole. I would look up Kpop idols I liked and see their height and weight and also how some of them get that small. And I think I’ve learned that almost all of them are starving themselves and very underweight. Even the male idols. I learned that Felix from SKZ has done a bunch of water fasts and other diets to stay thin. He’s 5’7 and weighs like 120lb mind you (might be a bit off) which is underweight. He seemed to be focused on keeping his cheeks thin too?? I also looked up female idols. Most were 5’4-5’8 and weighed 90-108lb. Which does not seem healthy at all.

And I watched a video asking women in Korea about weight and they all said 100-110 is the ideal weight for a woman, regardless of height. One woman who looked very small was considered fat and she only weighed 127lb. It’s insane. These poor people are killing themselves. Even worse than that, there are slobs who actually consider them “fat” and “ugly”.

But this isn’t just in Korea or Asian countries. I’ve also seen in western culture that men are very obsessed with weight. Not even how it looks on a woman just the number itself. It seems men think 110-115 is somehow the ideal weight too despite height. And having a flat stomach.

It just upsets me to realize that many men want underweight women and this causes so many girls to suffer. They also say it’s a valid “preference” but I honestly don’t think that it could be considered a preference or valid because they want something unhealthy and/or physically impossible (as far as I know it’s almost completely impossible for a woman to have a completely flat stomach bc the fat is stored there to protect the uterus) And in Korea, both men and women are suffering.