okay but also women's beauty standards also help enforce the illusion of the sexgender binary, yanno? like we see woman and men as clean separate biological categories, and that's easy to understand in large part because our idea of a "man" and a "woman" look different- men are hairy, rugged, have short or sorta dry head hair, have small eyelashes, and did i mention the body hair and facial hair? women have smooth clear skin, no facial or body hair, head hair that's long and well-kept, thick eyelashes, large rich lips... except the qualities i ascribed to "men" are just most adult humans without the work women are expected to do to maintain their appearance; haircare, skincare, makeup, shaving.
a world where women are not expected to do that, where we can have pores and fuzzy cheeks and leg hair and blemishes and dry hair and not be punished for it, it becomes so much clearer how male and female are variations on the same form, categories with fuzzy edges and overlap rather than two distinct boxes with a hard wall between them.