From viral skincare videos to hyper-muscular influencer bodies online, men are facing increasing societal pressure to look good — just have women have for generations.
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Sunscreen shields us from UV rays, but its ads sell perfection, not just protection.
AI-generated images reinforce narrow, unrealistic and exclusionary body ideals, which are harmful to our body image.
Social media exploits our brain’s responsiveness to reward and social cues — enforcing the narrow beauty ideals we internalise.
Kris Jenner’s ‘new’ face sparked myriad headlines about how she can look so good at 69. It’s the latest iteration of our obsession with people who appear ageless.
Selfie-editing technologies are leading some young people to want to start altering their physical bodies.
Beauty plays a role in shaping women’s opportunities in both the online and the real world, leading young women to rely on increasingly intensive and expensive practices and products.
Thought-provoking reads for the critical thinker on your gift list. Each book connects with a past Don’t Call Me Resilient episode. Listen alongside reading to bring the scholar & their ideas to life.
The season three scene between Colin and Penelope got more than a few hearts racing. It’s a refrenshingly rare onscreen portrayal of a larger women in a passionate, sexual encounter.
Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
In Canada, over 50 per cent of female students in Ontario have reported moderate to severe psychological distress. One in four girls has been sexually abused by the time they turn 18.
Standards of beauty have been embedded in different cultures, in varying forms, from time immemorial. What endures is that women are still regarded as inferior to men.
One component that may be missing from weight monitoring during pregnancy is the psychological and emotional impact of these changes.
Important questions surrounding the praise over Kim Kardashian’s Skims are missing from mainstream conversations.
Idealized standards for muscular, fat-free male bodies may be fuelling the use of SARMs, or selective androgen receptor modulators, unapproved muscle-building drugs that are easily available online.
The more people watch TV the more likely it is that they prefer a slimmer female body size.
Moulding eyebrows to make a statement is nothing new. A journey through history, across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, shows some of the highs and lows of brow fashion.
Many historic ideas about women’s beauty - from prizing firm breasts to emphasising the ‘natural’ - continue to resonate today.
In this photography-based research project, gay men document their struggles with body image, and challenge current beauty standards.
Many gyms use free tanning beds to lure in new members who are eager to look and feel their best. But this, argues Sherry Pagoto, runs against the health lifestyle premise these gyms are advocating.
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