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The Beauty Backslide: Inside the return to conservative, skinny ideals

After a brief exile during the body positive movement of the mid to late 2010s, “skinny culture” has recently slithered back into the mainstream. Health visits for eating disorders more than doubled among under 17s in recent years according to one study, celebrities openly use Ozempic and other GLP-1s, and “ultra-thinness” has returned as a beauty... See more

Sithara Ranasinghe • Is the Cannibal Girl Trend Just Diet Culture in Disguise?

thinness, eating “healthy” and right wing politics

Sicardi further explains the broader function of beauty in society: “Beauty has always been a tool of fear and respectability politics, a language of ‘passing’ in a system of surveillance and judgement. We’re going to see it operate in several ways – as a method of distraction (So many products! So many problems to fix in ourselves!), and as a way... See more

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we are already seeing it, taking form in optimisation content and how to make yourself better at x content, ads always trying to sell you stuff

Conservative outlets now frame the once-celebrated body positivity movement as “emotionally manipulative”, accusing them of gaslighting the public into accepting unhealthy lifestyles.

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but who gets to decide what healthy is?