There is something sinister about associating signs of age with corrupt morality, and associating a youthful appearance with moral purity. This is then further solidified by the seemingly moral superiority of those who are so defensive to comment back “Well I’m 34 and I don’t look like you!!!” as if to prove their superior value, morality, their... See more

[The] outcry against Photoshop use in ads and on magazine covers, which on the one hand instantly exposed the artificiality and dishonesty of the contemporary beauty standard, and on the other showed enough of a powerful, lingering desire for “real” beauty that it cleared space for ever-heightened expectations. Today, as demonstrated by the cult... See more