
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life

Photographer Petra Collins got banned from Instagram for wearing swimwear which showed her pubic hair – apparently that was considered over-sexualized. But girls who are shaved and wear bikinis are allowed all over the platform. You have to ask: who is making these rules?”
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
The hypocrisy is stunning – all sorts of sexually charged images of girls in bikinis revealing their derrieres and hoicked-up cleavages are fine, but a woman feeding her child in the most nonsexual setting possible is somehow unacceptable.
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
It’s a space where, day to day, you could imagine that all reasonable people agree with you, or at least understand where you’re coming from.
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
While Facebook clarified that nursing images were fine “in principle”, they reiterated that the nipple must not be visible.
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
Stop making presumptions about other people’s finances
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
just like any other businessmen, only dressed up in sweatpants and logo tees.
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
especially breasts in non-sexual contexts – the new platforms have applied a holier-than-thou attitude.
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
Anna Whitehouse, the journalist behind the @mother_pukka Instagram account and the Flex Appeal campaign – which aims to eradicate maternity discrimination in the workforce and encourage flexible working for both mothers and fathers
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
all. But that’s how I pay my bills, and you have to respect the work as much as the rewards.