Ugh, yes, this is so timely for me because I recently stumbled onto an influencer that I first discovered 2-3 years ago. This girl was gorgeous, literally the perfect face and body that everyone is paying for now. I seen her yesterday and was so saddened to see overfilled lips, cheeks, and likely lipo to make her waist even smaller. She actively made herself look much less attractive and somehow doesn't realize it???
I'm all for plastic surgery as enhancements but when beautiful people use it to make them selves look like cartoons -- in an effort to look like an IG filter I guess? -- Gen Z is for sure cooked, there seems to be very little separation between the real world and social media for them :(
Fabulous as always. Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women is back in print with a new forward by Moira Donegan, and I highly recommend it. I imagine Dworkin would see the women peddling unrealistic beauty standards as she did the right wing women of her time: as having embarked on a program of active complicity with patriarchy. One that leads them, at least, to a kind of conversion.
I think Americas next top model did a great job of showcasing The Algorithm at work. Tyra felt like she was just preparing these girls to portray what sells in the industry. But she had the sauce she could’ve changed the industry and the algorithm.. I mean she did influence it though still being herself and having her talk show.
Ugh, yes, this is so timely for me because I recently stumbled onto an influencer that I first discovered 2-3 years ago. This girl was gorgeous, literally the perfect face and body that everyone is paying for now. I seen her yesterday and was so saddened to see overfilled lips, cheeks, and likely lipo to make her waist even smaller. She actively made herself look much less attractive and somehow doesn't realize it???
I'm all for plastic surgery as enhancements but when beautiful people use it to make them selves look like cartoons -- in an effort to look like an IG filter I guess? -- Gen Z is for sure cooked, there seems to be very little separation between the real world and social media for them :(
“the pursuit of the instagram face and aesthetic is hustle culture for women” YES YES YES YES
Fabulous as always. Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women is back in print with a new forward by Moira Donegan, and I highly recommend it. I imagine Dworkin would see the women peddling unrealistic beauty standards as she did the right wing women of her time: as having embarked on a program of active complicity with patriarchy. One that leads them, at least, to a kind of conversion.
I think Americas next top model did a great job of showcasing The Algorithm at work. Tyra felt like she was just preparing these girls to portray what sells in the industry. But she had the sauce she could’ve changed the industry and the algorithm.. I mean she did influence it though still being herself and having her talk show.