“We preach body confidence, but we live in a culture that doesn’t quite know what to do with a woman who actually likes the way she looks. It’s considered arrogant and even unfeminine. Think of the recent hit One Direction song that made the claim that a woman was beautiful precisely because she didn’t know she was beautiful. We need to question a culture that tells women they must be beautiful to be loved, but that they shouldn’t actually feel beautiful or we’ll find them conceited.” FeminismContradictionsShamingWomen S StudiesMixed MessagesBeauty Culture Book:Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women Source: Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women