I went through a purge of my social media about a year ago and got rid of literally everyone who made me unhappy or didn’t actually contribute anything positive. It meant basically getting rid of every fitness/wanna be celebrity/’influencer’ that I had somehow ended up following, because they were all presenting these…

I have no problem with women who change their appearance, have plastic surgery, etc. People should do what they want (within reason). However, I wish more people were transparent about it—it’s the one thing to admire about Iggy Azalea. In the least, don’t lie about it. I think that’s where it goes a bit awry...for me,…

The caption on that ‘gram made me hate her even more than I already do. Is that tone-deaf or what?

“We can’t create a society in which women are forced to be beautiful to be successful and then be mad at the women for doing what it takes to be beautiful.”

“We”? I’m not creating it. Powerful men take the blame off rich and powerful women—many of whom were born that way—but suddenly it’s me, not powerful and not rich,…

The internet has taken fantasy—that is, a kind of life apart from the real—and woven it into an ever tighter noose around people’s beliefs about said lives and what they should be.

Agreed that the comments tend towards scary and gleeful shaming. But I think that’s an audience (/ human?) problem vs. the account’s problem. There are a lot of people who, like I said above, ARE part of the problem and will be like HA! Cellulite! But the more and more we as a public see images of women looking…

It’s not body shaming because it doesn’t present the women’s actual bodies and say “Ha! Look how fat they are!”, it’s just saying “here’s what they actually look like.” If you look at the picture of an instagram star in real life and say “Wow, she actually has cellulite so she’s fat”, then you’re just part of the…

How could anyone not like Rihanna, she’s so badass. And regardless of her shape at any given time, she exudes sex appeal like few other people I’ve ever seen, but she does it without trying or seeming to care about it. Rihanna is fucking awesome.

Blake Lively!?

“You’re asking the wrong person… I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m ‘thicc’ now.” She continued: “[Having a butt] comes with a price. You want to have a butt, then you have a gut.”

Let’s not forget some women have fake butts. And Blake only had a butt when she was pregnant.

I’d argue the contrary, by bringing these perfect avatars down we can relate to them. 

The fact that being an “influencer” is now considered by many as an actual profession speaks to how much has changed.  

Why do we keep assuming that it was hard for her to learn to love her body or that she even had to learn to love it in the first place?

We’re around the same age, then. For me—and i def should’ve made this clearer—the big difference is that internet didn’t feel like “real life” at the time. Yeah, social media was starting and the internet was becoming more fundamental but it still felt like a separate thing from my day-to-day life.

A lot of those women became millionaires and even billionaires selling young girls a body image that was no more real than anime. There is value in pointing out how much of a lie the image is. And I have to ask, is the lie not misogyny? Is photoshop, hours of make up, surgery, and a team of experts to post a single…

I hear random children on the street talking about their social media brand. Like actual children... your not a thing you don’t need a brand. You should just be enjoying childhood.  

We are rapidly moving into hyperrealism and Baudrillard’s nightmare predictions concerning the simulacra, where the symbol becomes more desirable than the object it represents. This trend will only accelerate as technology continues to advance, driven in part by this fetishization of the hyperreal - i.e. it’s…

Oh absolutely. It was bad enough when I was in high school in the early-mid 2000s (although when has it ever NOT been bad?) but at least then I could feel bad about not being a model or movie star, who obviously had resources I didn’t.

Now young girls see “normal” girls/women who appear to have perfect lives, perfect…

A few years ago I decided enough was enough and stopped buying magazines, stopped looking at “fitness inspo” online, and have purposely avoided the Instagram celebrity culture. Looking at a magazine recently filled with ad campaigns, I was pleasantly shocked to realize not only how much less I buy into this shit, but…