“The brands previously thought you should feel one way about yourself, and now they have decided that’s no longer appropriate for their goals. How you talk about yourself should change, even if nothing has changed that would materially affect how you feel.”Tagged: Body Positivity, Woke Capitalism, Bodies
“What none of this addresses, of course, is why someone might hate their body. There is no inherent unhappiness to womanhood, or to fatness, or to blackness, or to anything else that American beauty standards have long treated as a problem. The conditions under which we loathe ourselves are socially…”Tagged: Body Positive, Psychology, How To Think
“These companies, with all their resources and reach and ability to manipulate public opinion, have done something they do frequently: They’ve conflated identifying a problem with solving it, and if we let ourselves be convinced these issues are headed in the right direction and our problems really…”Tagged: Body Positive, How To Think
“Maybe more than any other part of our physical selves, hair has the ever-present capacity to betray us.”Tagged: beauty, hair, appearances, Frauds, Anna Delvey
“I learned what all women eventually learn: that if beauty isn’t a thing you already possess, then it’s a thing that can be acquired and constructed if you have the money to pay the professionals and the free time to let them render their services.”Tagged: beauty, hair, blonde
“Commuting and office life can make you sick, but so can doing anything with other people.”Tagged: Health, Working From Home
“Consumer choices might not be an effective solution to structural problems such as pollution, but it’s nice to feel like you’re making ethical choices. If nothing else, Millennials can buy the best water bottle they can afford and try their best to stay hydrated.”Tagged: Consumer Behavior, Buying Things
“While people’s brains certainly enjoy beauty, our appreciation is often not that straightforward because our perceptions are also influenced by everything else about a particular interaction.”Tagged: Attractiveness, Hot People, Being Hot, Physicality
“Those baseline differences in outlook can make the virtues of both earliness and lateness impossible to explain to people in the opposite camp.”Tagged: Airports, Being Late, Punctual
“Some people get hung up on whether astrology is "true" or scientific, but that means they miss the way tons of young people are actually using it: As a way to depersonalize their emotions and make them easier to talk about with their friends.”Tagged: Astrology, Feelings, emotions, Millennials
“Whether WW’s products are good for kids, they’re probably very good for the company.”Tagged: Weight Watchers, Diet Culture, Kurbo by WW
“I spent $1,279 of The Atlantic’s money on creams, crystals, and a vibrator from Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness empire. Things got weird.”Tagged: Goop, Health, Media
“In 2019 the end game of fame is always sales.”Tagged: Capitalism Baby , Marie Kondo, E-Commerce, Selling Out
“Young people might want to stock their kitchens, but many of them also want to post, and it’s possible to kill both those birds with one heavy-bottomed pan.”Tagged: Domestic, Adulthood, Cooking, Instagram
“I have people i follow on here who i hate so much that i can't bring myself to even mute them bc i would miss the thrill of hating them, which is how i know the lord is still working on me”Tagged: Twitter, Social Media, Hate following, Funny