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Because the cosmetics industry spends billions of dollars a year yelling at women that they aren't good enough.
They're working the same bullshit on boys too (publicly) for the last 20 years.
I mean, it's been going on far longer than 20 years. It's just been more directly relatable to how women's appearances have been critiqued since 'metrosexuality' was a trend a couple decades ago.
Yes. I specifically mention 20 years because that is roughly where Neutrogena said at a shareholder meeting that their goal was to addict boys and men to their products like they have to girls and women.
the thing is, those ppl have seen others with mar-a-lago face. it's uncanny. still they do it. they are like "i wanna look bad and unnatural". we have to accept that. their body; their choice.
I thought it was relatively well known that you’re mostly only noticing people that either have went too far or didn’t respond well to whatever treatment.
The thing is that the majority mostly fall under two categories; ones that look natural to the person and you don’t notice them or things that the viewer might not find attractive but the person wanted.
Ie a rhinoplasty to change the side profile of your face via straightening your nose, while maintaining a similar frontal profile.
Vs
A rhinoplasty to create a pinched in upturned nose similar to a bratz doll
Both are rhinoplasty, but achieve quite different goals. Im just saying it’s complex.
also, depending on personal preference, "too far" is usually any change. it's hard to top thousands of years of human evolution. even a cute face with a medium size scar often looks good to most ppl; better even, than the outcome of reconstructive surgery.
if you have seen the person before, you will always notice and it will be uncanny. you can even notice just botox as soon as a person speaks and it's weird.
but it's also a matter of taste, like a piercing, for example. some ppl will be like "nooo, what did you do to your perfect face" and others will be like "i'm into that". the question is what ones priorities are. do they want to look well for others and if so, whom? or do they do it for themselves and it doesn't matter if others are weirded out.
That’s not right.
They are yelling at women that they aren’t good enough… unless they are waring their product. Oh if you use that other product you are just as ugly as you feel inside.
Hot take: advertising doesnt have that much impact on womens views of their own attractiveness or society's beauty standards, unless those women are completely disconnected from the outside world. If it did, women's beauty standards would be completely homogenenized. Instead, we see significantly different standards for what women strive for between cultures and social strata.
Instead, women are picking up cues from their social circles and the broader cultures they participate in.
Okay, then you can see that in many ways advertising creates and reinforces the looks of these subcultures in the first place.
We are not taking strict commercial advertising here, we are talking a coordinated effort across all cultural platforms to ingrain their brands.
Magazines, movies, music, tv, games, the military, higher education, bars, and even books etc; can and do have corporate sponsorships. They are all selling an image inside of each of these subcultures.
With the rise of globalism this has been spread throughout the world.
This is our point of disagreement. The effort isn't coordinated. In fact, it is competitive. If you believe there is some high council of global beauty standards, disseminating their message to every bar and tv show and school in the world, you are a conspiracy nut.
Instead, these entities look at the subcultures they sell to, observe what people consider beautiful in them, and then sell that image.
If you don’t think there is a coordinated effort to market products globally in the year 2026, you’re just not thinking thoroughly.
If they makes me a nut than okay I guess
Edit: accidentally said 2016, damn I’m getting old
Do you believe there is some high council of global beauty standards, disseminating their message to every bar and tv show and school in the world?