Beauty standards: a Marxist analysis

Beauty standards are goofy as hell - revolutionaryth0t
A video essay discussing whether beauty standards are universal (spoiler alert: they are not), how beauty standards are manufactured for profit, and why people still follow beauty standards from a Marxist feminist perspective.

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SOURCES

‘Not ugly, just poor’: how the beauty industry is widening the class divide
https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/a...
The myth of universal beauty
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
A Brief Cultural History of Sun Tanning
https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/0...
WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS! Lead Makeup from the 1800’s - Erin Parsons
   • WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS! Lead Makeup from...  
How colonialism influences our 'type' - BBC REEL
   • How colonialism influences our 'type' - BB...  
How White Supremacy and Capitalism Influence Beauty Standards 
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stand...

Hair removal:
How the beauty industry convinced women to shave their legs
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/22/8640457...
X-Ray Hair Removal: Seeing Through the Beauty Industry
https://imss.org/2020/06/08/x-ray-hai...
X-rays and Hair Removal
https://cosmeticsandskin.com/cdc/xray...

Symmetry:

What does facial symmetry reveal about health and personality? (Švegar, 2016)
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Associations between asymmetry and human attractiveness: Possible direct effects of asymmetry and signatures of publication bias (Van Dongen, 2010)
https://informahealthcare.com/doi/ful...
Here’s What Faces Would Look Like If They Were Perfectly Symmetrical
https://time.com/2848303/heres-what-f...

Waist to hip ratio:
A brief rant about waist-to-hip ratio
https://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.co...
Preferred waist-to-hip ratio and ecology (Marlowe & Wetsman, 2001)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? (Yu & Shepard, 1998)
https://www.nature.com/articles/24512
A Critical Test of the Waist-to-Hip Ratio Hypothesis of Women's Physical Attractiveness in Britain and Greece (Swami et al., 2006)
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Preference for Women's Body Mass and Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Tsimane' Men of the Bolivian Amazon: Biological and Cultural Determinants (Sorokowski et al, 2014)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Beauty and wages:
Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set (Orrefice & Quintana-Domeque, 2016)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Beauty and the Labor Market (Hammermesh & Biddle, 1994)
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net...
Why beauty matters (Mobius & Rosenblat, 2006)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10...
Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature. (Liu & Smierminska, 2015)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

Hyaluronic acid fillers
Managing Complications of Fillers: Rare and Not-So-Rare
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Filler dissolver 'DESTROYED MY FACE' - Victorian Cosmetic Institute
   • Filler dissolver 'DESTROYED MY FACE'  
How long do dermal fillers really last? MRI scans provide evidence. - Victorian Cosmetic Institute
   • How long do dermal fillers really last? MR...  
Why the overfilled don't see it... - Victorian Cosmetic Institute
   • Why the overfilled don't see it...  
The global hyaluronic acid based dermal fillers market is projected to grow from $4.13 billion in 2023 to $7.15 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 8.1%
https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.c...
chin filler 3 years later | filler migration, what they don't tell you.. - Jasmine Homden
   • chin filler 3 years later | filler migrati...  
CAUTION RAISED OVER POTENTIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM IMPACT OF COSMETIC FILLER
https://baaps.org.uk/about/news/1880/...

00:00 Intro
04:04 1. Is universal beauty a real thing?
07:31 2. How beauty standards are manufactured for profit
19:05 3. Why do people still follow beauty standards?
23:37 4. Conclusion