Will Being ‘Ugly’ Be Aspirational One Day?

Thus the cycle of aesthetic optimization and homogenization continued.

It didn’t cross their minds, he’s sure, that it would start a race with Snapchat and others to see who could “provide better beautification filters”—and that this would, in turn, change how people thought of their own bodies so much that today there’s a whole category of people who undergo surgery so they can look more like their filters.

As apresentadoras mais velhas passam por um “verdadeiro pesadelo” porque logo não serão “bonitas o suficiente para continuar nos telejornais”.