The Moralization of Beauty: A Flawed Ideal

If you’re as chronically online and addicted to social media as I am, you’re probably familiar with these types of content. Where users across platforms, particularly on Twitter are associating celebrities’ moral virtues (or being “unproblematic” as Gen Z are calling it) with their looks and how they adhere to the social convention of beauty standards. Some of the key terms usually mentioned in these tweets are ‘clear skin’, ‘no-acne’, ‘high cheekbones’ or other beauty parameters our modern society has deemed acceptable to be defined as “beautiful”. Which in my opinion, are very narrow and exclusive. This trend ignores the fact that these celebrities have the privilege and access to the best specialists and clinical treatments to “maintain” their looks, while “normal” people do not.

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