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Do Beauty Standards Need A Glow Up? (ICYMI) with David Yi

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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What Do You Think About Gender Roles?

Gender roles were created from the Western world because of Christian influence. All people have always beautified in we can trace this back to any culture throughout the world, whether it's the wodabi in Niger or the hydras in Polynesia. And also beauty was very innate in a lot of indigenous tribes throughout the world. So I would conclude that from my research, masculinity and what we know today in gender roles is very new. It only came in the late 1800s and 1900s but before that, everyone was beautifying.

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