I call it the Body Modification Industrial Complex. It starts with hundreds of thousands of 'beauticians', who increasingly subscrice to a mysitque of cosmetic alteration via invasive techniques, combined with social media marketing campaigns, and this results in a relentless marketing barrage that algorithmically attaches itself to victims, pulling at women's weaknesses.
The reason there is a market for skinny drugs and eye-widening surgery, is that people believe in the bizarre photoshooped images in the media, and replace traditional beauty myths that signal fertility and youth, and replace that with a new 'ideal' standard. Thus we see a meme, or a cartoonish replication, of feminine beauty. And in this poor victim's case, she has reduced herself, literally and figuratively.
I call it the Body Modification Industrial Complex. It starts with hundreds of thousands of 'beauticians', who increasingly subscrice to a mysitque of cosmetic alteration via invasive techniques, combined with social media marketing campaigns, and this results in a relentless marketing barrage that algorithmically attaches itself to victims, pulling at women's weaknesses.
The reason there is a market for skinny drugs and eye-widening surgery, is that people believe in the bizarre photoshooped images in the media, and replace traditional beauty myths that signal fertility and youth, and replace that with a new 'ideal' standard. Thus we see a meme, or a cartoonish replication, of feminine beauty. And in this poor victim's case, she has reduced herself, literally and figuratively.