“When Playboy’s first issue came out, photo manipulation and boob jobs were unheard of, but as beauty has become a consumer good to be purchased and acquired, Photoshop has become a tool for fueling consumption. Today, it’s not enough that affluent American women have been brainwashed into being gym rats and plastic surgery patients. These companies want these ideas to become the norm. That is, they want women with enough wealth to hand it over, and they want women without it to aspire to be consumers”
— Sex and the Ivy, “A Capitalist Motive Behind The Beauty Myth”
If you appreciated my post about plus-size Glamour model Lizzi Miller, then read my latest entry on Sex and the Ivy about the capitalist motivations behind making women idealize a certain kind of body.
If you appreciated my post about plus-size Glamour model Lizzi Miller, then read my latest entry on Sex and the Ivy about the capitalist motivations behind making women idealize a certain kind of body.
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