043 | All These Damn Beauty Standards: The Lies, Pressures And Truths
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min
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Episode description
This week, Guerdley and I are unpacking our ever-shifting body and beauty “standards.” We’re talking about being bullied into loving our bodies, pinpointing where our obsession with appearance even came from, and so much more.
We get into:
(3:00) Hair as a tool of hierarchy
(12:10) Tracy + Guerdley’s personal definitions of beauty
(15:00) Social media’s role in pretty privilege
(34:45) Embracing aging + challenging the pressure to look young forever
(43:30) Toxic positivity + being bullied into self-love
(49:15) Embracing filters for self-expression
(55:45) The ebbs and flows of body image
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