The unreal expectations laid upon women

I was speaking to my friend Amber yesterday and telling her how sad I feel for what our culture has created in terms of expectations on women, and how I feel it has harmed both men AND women. For example, every woman desires to be this physically:

And why? Because our culture has created the image above as the "ideal", the very picture of perfection, and it so saturates our consciousness that men succomb to the power of the image. And women know this. Never mind the women are usually anorexic and airbrushed.

As a result, many men miss out on great relationships with women who truly ARE beautiful, even if they don't equal the current "supermodel" look. But a few hundred years ago, the fat, white chicks were considered supermodels.

Back to today: What this public image of what a woman should be has done to many women, on the other hand, is create in them a sense of inadequacy or even ugliness, when in reality God creates EVERYONE beautiful. Not to mention that that feeling never leads to physical beauty anyway, but usually makes people eat more or become anorexic.

So we find this pressure on both men and women, men to show off a trophy and women to be a trophy.

Lord, may you help us to break this curse, and this cycle of unrealistic images of our mates in our minds. Amen.