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The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever

The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever

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It wasn’t that long ago that “body positivity” was all over the
internet. Oppressive beauty standards hadn’t gone away by any
stretch, but many people on social media were pushing against
limits on what an “ideal” body could look like. Now, things have
swung in the opposite direction, with the rapid uptake of GLP-1s
and the resurgence of a skinny ideal, combined with a new frankness
about plastic surgery. The calls for “self-love” and “health at any
size” can be harder to hear these days over the roar of
looksmaxxers and influencers talking about weight loss and cosmetic
procedures. In this episode of How to Touch Grass, hosts Natalie
Brennan and Julie Beck talk with Atlantic staff writer Sophie
Gilbert, the author of Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a
Generation of Women Against Themselves, about how the culture of
the internet got even more image-focused and the role that
social-media algorithms play in distorting what people consider
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