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[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The crazy thing is that a ton of men found the heroin sheik anorexic model thing totally gross. It seemed like media/corpos and women were in a feedback loop of profit/ self loathing that had next to nothing to do with what most people found attractive. Male portrayals during that age were equally gross, but even that seemed targeted at women. The corpo/male feedback loop was (and still is, to an extent) around embodiment and display of either quiet boy aesthetic or over the top and stereotypical masculinity. Seems like things are getting better but I’m sure my kid and her generation will suffer new variants of the same bullshit—maybe even more covertly through supposedly “independent” YouTubers etc.

[–] Pogbom@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

heroin sheik

Yeah those Arab drug lords were really setting the trends...

Sorry, I had to haha.

[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Chic. I see the word enough to correct myself without needing to look it up, but never actually use the word except the rare times when I talk about the monochromatic models of the 90s. Phononymochangomatic brain.

That's modern fashion in a nutshell. They thrive by making women feel insecure about bullshit no real person cares about.

Like, fucking Dove had an ad campaign that promised to make your arm pits more attractive.