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19 Aug

How sex and dating have not caught up with

Throughout the realms of fashion and sweetness, a shift towards diversity in casting implies that representation of assorted bodies and multiple ethnicities is progressively improving. Throughout the worlds of dating and sex nevertheless, things are more staid; irrespective of how progressive we appear to be getting as a culture in the best way that we view beauty, in relation to individual desire we are sometimes judgemental and discriminatory. A famous blog post from 2014 detailed how on OKCupid, as an example, black women and Asian men are the least liked or least desired on the platform, and on apps like Grindr, not much has modified – minority ethnic people experience a lot fetishisation and racism that the app-makers needed to publicly...

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15 Aug

Billie Eilish opens up about being sexualised and having

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Billie Eilish opens up about being sexualised and having

The media (read: men) have an issue with sexualising young girls in the general public eye. In her first speech as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson detailed how she was sexualised by the press from the age of 14. When talking on the Women’s March last 12 months, Natalie Portman recounted how male critics would describe her “budding breasts” as a pre-teen actress and the local radio station that had a countdown to her 18th birthday. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen would experience the identical countdown a couple of years later. This aspect of our culture is a component of the reasoning that goes into Billie Eilish’s now-signature baggy style. “I never want the world to know every part about me. I...

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14 Aug

Meme tattoos and the rise of post-ironic body art

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Meme tattoos and the rise of post-ironic body art

Post-ironic tattoos10 Images “Yeah sex is great but Fortnite” – a funny meme, possibly, but would you will have it permanently inked in your skin? For some, the reply is a resounding yes. Because, despite being raised on Kim Kardashian’s forewarning words, ‘you wouldn’t put a bumper sticker on a Bentley’, Gen Z are one in all the most inked generations. And in contrast to the earnest and symbolic designs favoured by Millennials – infinity signs, plant pots, love hearts etc – they're taking a more ironic approach to their ink, with tattoos that seem like memes lifted straight off your Instagram grid. The brainchild of brain rot, ironic tattoos resemble the relics of 2009 memes and shitposting spiel you’d find on...

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14 Aug

Honey Ross is the body image activist reclaiming what

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Honey Ross is the body image activist reclaiming what

Growing up in leafy North London, 22-year-old screenwriter and body image activist Honey Ross had a sophisticated childhood. With each her mum and pop noted for his or her successes within the TV and film industries, she spent her youth somewhat in the general public eye, which she explains gave her a “huge desire for attention, but additionally incredibly severe anxiety.” So whilst spending her teenage years securing internships and odd jobs within the film industry – which paid off when she landed her first skilled screenwriting gig at 18 – her ambition was combined with crippling teenage insecurity and body image struggles. “I really hated myself growing up,” Honey says. “I believe it was a mix of that typical low-level teenage...

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