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This seems better than how the ad industry and tech workers in it help facilitate the most warped beauty standards that women are expected to achieve which migh
by fibers 7y ago
This seems better than how the ad industry and tech workers in it help facilitate the most warped beauty standards that women are expected to achieve which might lead to eating disorders on the long run.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoPerhaps "Let's wear our hair and clothes in accordance with the Capitalist Lifestyle" is too on-the-nose in the West. Much better to call it something inspiring and cosmopolitan like "Vogue". Or even "Cosmopolitan."
- kennywinker 7y agoAh yes the government mandated cosmo subscriptions we all are forced to have are quite a burden. ;P
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoOffice mandated hair, suit and tie, or skirt and heels policies just to work a non-public office can be. Thankfully not as common as they were.
- mrandish 7y agoI am deeply grateful that working in tech startups my entire life from college to retirement, I never worked anywhere that had a dress code.
- ngngngng 7y agoFunny enough, the people I know with the most extreme dress and grooming habits identify as socialists.
- cm2012 7y agoThe ad industry has almost no control over how people like to wear their hair. It can just advertise products that support what's already popular - long or short hair, frizzy or straight, etc.
- ModernMech 7y agoIt's the other way around from my observation. My wife subscribes to these high end fashion magazines. You'll see a runway style featured in there, something like tribal prints. Six months later or so and you'll start seeing tribal print everything in mall stores. Then you'll see it in Target. Before you know it, everyone is wearing tribal prints and they don't know why. There's a scene in "The Devil Wears Prada" that tries to convey this process: "You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff."
- cm2012 7y agoThat's editorial decision making. Not ads. And usually the editors notice the style getting popular among trendy people and then writes about it/uses it in the fashion show.
- faissaloo 7y agoOr perhaps there is a middle ground in which people have some ability to distinguish themselves from others but not to the degree that they alienate themselves.
- Nasrudith 7y agoThat makes about as much sense as proposing a middle ground between sex requiring consent and legalizing rape. Either their cosmetic styling are under personal control or it isn't - and any other restrictions should be incidental and justified. Heavy machinery operation calling for bound long hair is justifiable for instance.
- faissaloo 7y ago>That makes about as much sense as proposing a middle ground between sex requiring consent and legalizing rape. Your hair is not this important. Also I reject the notion that consent-based sex and the legalisation of rape are at opposite ends of the spectrum of options for regulating sex in a society.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt is a question of personal autonomy and choice. That it isn't theirs to decide is the essential part not how "important" it is. Besides you can never trust mere claims of importance without any justification as an argument.
- faissaloo 7y agoPersonal autonomy comes in degrees and taking such a simplistic view of things provides you a faulty understanding of the world we live in.