“Heroin chic” used to be an unironic term for female beauty standards. Nothing will be as bad for our self-image as the white supremacist capitalist monoculture of the 20th century.
Social media has been a godsend, helping people build communities around other standards of beauty or even resisting central beauty standards altogether. The diversity of aesthetics, the social support for people who don’t fit the cookie-cutter mould, the sharing of nutritional delicious meals without advertisers leaning on the editor.
Personally, people on social media advised me to cut shampoo when doctors told me to use more and more intense shampoo, so now I have healthier hair while spending less on product. Social media helped me recognize I was trans and showed me realistic transition timelines when regular media treated it as a vomitous joke and my psychiatrist said it was just the autistic tendency to question everything.
Without social media I would probably have killed myself, unable to make myself conform to how my those around me said I should look and act.
There are plenty of infohazards on social media, but Lemmy is also a social medium, as are reddit and youtube where I got most of that productive information over the years. I am glad social media exist, I’m glad we and others like us able to talk like this, and I hope we always will be able to. Though yeah, hopefully not through capitalism.
Self image has been destroyed by both social and classic media under any regime - I’m pre-social media and my self image was just as bad. But yeah, I agree that social media carry the torch now.
The artist is actually so cute though
Our self image has been destroyed by social media under capitalism.
“Heroin chic” used to be an unironic term for female beauty standards. Nothing will be as bad for our self-image as the white supremacist capitalist monoculture of the 20th century.
Social media has been a godsend, helping people build communities around other standards of beauty or even resisting central beauty standards altogether. The diversity of aesthetics, the social support for people who don’t fit the cookie-cutter mould, the sharing of nutritional delicious meals without advertisers leaning on the editor.
Personally, people on social media advised me to cut shampoo when doctors told me to use more and more intense shampoo, so now I have healthier hair while spending less on product. Social media helped me recognize I was trans and showed me realistic transition timelines when regular media treated it as a vomitous joke and my psychiatrist said it was just the autistic tendency to question everything.
Without social media I would probably have killed myself, unable to make myself conform to how my those around me said I should look and act.
There are plenty of infohazards on social media, but Lemmy is also a social medium, as are reddit and youtube where I got most of that productive information over the years. I am glad social media exist, I’m glad we and others like us able to talk like this, and I hope we always will be able to. Though yeah, hopefully not through capitalism.
Self image has been destroyed by both social and classic media under any regime - I’m pre-social media and my self image was just as bad. But yeah, I agree that social media carry the torch now.