Body Image, Social Media, & Beauty Standards

Description

In this episode Georgie and Engrid branch off their original episode on Putting Other People On Pedestals - and deep dive into the role social media and influencers have on consumers' perception of reality, desire to live an unattainable lifestyle, and ever-changing beauty standards.

Trigger Warning: for anyone struggling with disordered eating, an eating disorder, or body dysmorphia there are two mentions of numbers/measurements in this episode.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

Georgie shares more of the reality of influencer life, namely the pressure to document
How social media/influencers contribute to this desire to achieve an unattainable lifestyle
Engrid shares about how she feels when she's trying to curate herself
She also dives into what happens on a macro scale when we are chronically exposed to "over-curation"
We can be subconsciously influenced to emulate what we see on social media, and thus begin to live a life that isn't really ours
How social media impacts the beauty standard
"Beauty privilege" & "Pretty Privilege"
It's troubling that we live in a world where our body size and appearance have to mean so much
How mainstream brands like Victoria Secret, Brandy Melville, Barbie, the Miss America Pageant and the Kardashians have contributed to beauty standards
Sources for folks interested in learning more about the history behind the hierarchy of bodies
On one hand you want to do what you need to, to survive [in this system] and on the other hand you want to dismantle the system that are hurting so many people