There is something wrong with our society. Regardless of your beliefs, being a woman sucks. Not wanting this to become a scholarly work on everyway woman are assaulted in this society, I will instead zoom in on one thing: Beauty.
For as long I can remember I have heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think it is said better by David Hume, "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." This means that beauty is a subjective thing. For example, some people find profound beauty in birds. I do not see it the same way. A bird is a bird to me. But for that person, that bird possesses beauty that only their mind knows the height an depth of. When it comes to people though, specifically women, this saying falls short in large ways. This saying suggests that a woman's beauty, which is central to her being and cosmic make up, is circumstantial and only true in some instances. This is a lie.
Somewhere in the history of mankind, beauty became something a commodity, something that suddenly had scarcity written all over it. But beauty is not something to be studied in an economics class. This is thought behind our society and cultures view of beauty. Beauty is bought and sold every day. Whether its pornography, sex trafficking, or professional modeling, society has told women that IT has cornered the market on beauty and you can only achieve it IF and only if you make it your life's goal.
What kind of life that? Spending every day trying to be beautiful but on the inside knowing you don't fit societies standard. Trying to be thin enough, tan enough, fit enough. Having the right hair style and color. Having the right boobs and butt. It goes on and on and on. This life endorses a life style of affection seeking. Desiring to be told that you have in fact achieved beauty.
You, whoever you are, are beautiful. Satan has stolen this TRUTH from you. As a woman, created by the creator, you embody your creators beauty. You are the only one who can. Notice men do not. We are hairy and gross. We fulfill another part of our creators identity. All that our God, our Father in Heaven is, you embody it. It only makes sense that Satan would seek to rob this from you. In stealing your beauty from you, he subjects you a life of seeking something that you already have. You have been lied to, society has lied to you. You are beautiful and worth loving and perfect the way you are.
Song of songs 4:7 "You are altogether beautiful, my love, there is no flaw in you."
I am not just saying these things. Our father has spoken them to us. To you. So bump society. The reason that the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" falls so short of describing your beauty is because no human could possibly behold your beauty. No human could possibly understand all that you are, will be, and can be. The only person who can behold your beauty, behold the Glory that is your beauty, is God. Because it is his glory and his beauty. And you are his creation. And you never leave his sight, meaning he never loses sight of your beauty.
