Tag Archives: beauty standards

“Dove Real Beauty,” self-esteem, and One Direction

By Alexandra | Published: April 16, 2013
Tweet Over the weekend, Dove released a new video promoting its carefully constructed brand of “real beauty” self-esteem boosting. The concept is clever. A series of women describe themselves to a forensic sketch artist behind a curtain. Afterward, new friends describe these same women to the same guy and he draws a new picture. Inevitably, [...]
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I can’t stop thinking about other people who can’t stop looking at Korean women

By Amy S. Choi | Published: January 22, 2013
TweetLast week, Jezebel ran this story: “I Can’t Stop Looking at These South Korean Women Who’ve Had Plastic Surgery.” The subtitle: “UNNERVING PUSH TOWARDS UNIFORMITY.” (Emphasis original.) The piece discusses the penchant, among South Korean women, to elect for cosmetic surgery. One out of five women in Seoul, in fact. The writer looks at these pictures and [...]
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Teen boys also risking their health in pursuit of unattainable bodies

By Maya | Published: November 19, 2012
TweetGreat, so that basically makes all of us, right? The New York Times reports: “There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the last 30 years,” said Dr. Harrison Pope, a psychiatry professor at Harvard who studies bodybuilding culture and was not involved in the study. The portrayal of men [...]
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Quick Hit: The Upside of Ugly

By Vanessa | Published: August 6, 2012
TweetWe’re a few days late highlighting this, but it’s just too good not to share. Jessica at The Nation responds to the 14-year-old girl was recently given $40,000 in free cosmetic surgery because she was being bullied for having ears that stuck out: As my friend writer Jaclyn Friedman once said to me, the problem isn’t that [...]
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