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Girls perform emotional and physical labors that mirror what sociologists have termed “aesthetic labor,” common in the service industries. Flight attendants, retail workers, waiters—pretty much anyone in service has to “look good and sound right” according to their company’s brand identity.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
every inch of stature is worth nearly $800 a year on your salary across a wide spectrum of jobs, especially in males.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Everything in this economy revolves around girls: How good the club is. How good the promoter is. How much money he can make. How much wealth and power the clients are perceived to have. And how much money they will spend.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Whereas in the past a person wearing a Nirvana t-shirt was probably a fan of the band’s music, today no such guarantee exists (and many more shirts are sold). This often precludes one of the original purposes of merch, a signaling of belonging to a certain (sub)culture.
Still, the meaning-making of merch has not disappeared, but merely shifted. A pe
... See moreAna Andjelic • Everything Is Merch
numa profissão de alta visibilidade, a “beleza” de uma mulher era qualificação legítima para o emprego.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
employs a capitalistic approach to the use-value of the bodies it displays, that is, the labor is cheap, flexible, and disposable.
