BodieDysmorphia
Master Mogger
Ok so basically...its a psyop
In the 1950's the cigarette companies had been selling exclusively to men, but when women's suffrage took off, they made ads showing how liberating a woman would feel smoking a joint. Just an example of how companies manipulate current situations for their profit.
Historically, women were the demographic of self-care, skincare, and makeup companies, and even gyms, the fitness industry was built around women looking to be the ideal "woman" for their husbands. I have no opinion on this, men and women are different now.
Anyways over the decades women began to detach from traditional self-care and improvement products, they were getting the right to vote, etc. They wanted to stop looking like the oppressed women in the past (eventually women began to see makeup as a fun thing to do, even though there is still pressure to wear it in order to be attractive)
Meanwhile those companies had been missing out on 50% of the profit margin. Men. Men had been carefree when it came to looks. They didn't care. Until Hollywood made them care.
As Cinema took off, men started being objectified by women on the screen. The very reverse that had been used on women had been put onto men.
At first we didn't care, they were handsome and we weren't or we were and still didn't care.
That is until the fitness industry modernized and the ideal man became a roided up supermodel.
The companies that had previously prepared men for war and to be traditionally masculine were now objectifying men in order to pressure them into buying their products. At first it doesn't seem like it will do much but the universal effect has brought us here.
During and after the pandemic, every person who could afford any product was on a computer or phone, Companies took advantage of this and churned out head-turning ads and socialized everyone to NEED any product that improved them. Self image became important to us because we were looking at ourselves on a screen daily.
Now, "looksmaxxing" and gym culture have flown off the hook. People holding people to incredibly high standards and some even killing themselves over not being able to achieve these standards.
Lookism/looksmaxxing (lookism as a philosophy is correct but not the lengths we go to) is extremely unhealthy when taken too far. We all watched that 6 pack in 5 minutes video, we all googled how to lose belly fat in a few days. But lets remember why we did all of those things.
We did those things to connect with others, be liked, even loved. And in our pursuit of endless gratification and toxic "improvement" we've taken away many opportunities to actually get the things we actually NEED. So remember what's truly important and do everything in moderation. And most importantly realize that if everyone looked like you on the movie screen and journalists said you were the perfect looking human, then you would be.
Desired "looks" are an illusion that the companies created to sell any product under the sun.
Stay safe moggers
In the 1950's the cigarette companies had been selling exclusively to men, but when women's suffrage took off, they made ads showing how liberating a woman would feel smoking a joint. Just an example of how companies manipulate current situations for their profit.
Historically, women were the demographic of self-care, skincare, and makeup companies, and even gyms, the fitness industry was built around women looking to be the ideal "woman" for their husbands. I have no opinion on this, men and women are different now.
Anyways over the decades women began to detach from traditional self-care and improvement products, they were getting the right to vote, etc. They wanted to stop looking like the oppressed women in the past (eventually women began to see makeup as a fun thing to do, even though there is still pressure to wear it in order to be attractive)
Meanwhile those companies had been missing out on 50% of the profit margin. Men. Men had been carefree when it came to looks. They didn't care. Until Hollywood made them care.
As Cinema took off, men started being objectified by women on the screen. The very reverse that had been used on women had been put onto men.
At first we didn't care, they were handsome and we weren't or we were and still didn't care.
That is until the fitness industry modernized and the ideal man became a roided up supermodel.
The companies that had previously prepared men for war and to be traditionally masculine were now objectifying men in order to pressure them into buying their products. At first it doesn't seem like it will do much but the universal effect has brought us here.
During and after the pandemic, every person who could afford any product was on a computer or phone, Companies took advantage of this and churned out head-turning ads and socialized everyone to NEED any product that improved them. Self image became important to us because we were looking at ourselves on a screen daily.
Now, "looksmaxxing" and gym culture have flown off the hook. People holding people to incredibly high standards and some even killing themselves over not being able to achieve these standards.
Lookism/looksmaxxing (lookism as a philosophy is correct but not the lengths we go to) is extremely unhealthy when taken too far. We all watched that 6 pack in 5 minutes video, we all googled how to lose belly fat in a few days. But lets remember why we did all of those things.
We did those things to connect with others, be liked, even loved. And in our pursuit of endless gratification and toxic "improvement" we've taken away many opportunities to actually get the things we actually NEED. So remember what's truly important and do everything in moderation. And most importantly realize that if everyone looked like you on the movie screen and journalists said you were the perfect looking human, then you would be.
Desired "looks" are an illusion that the companies created to sell any product under the sun.
Stay safe moggers
