[Popular Voice] A good start to break the "white thin young" aesthetic
Landwa
Recently, on the red carpet of the annual character ceremony held by a certain magazine in Sanya, the "big size girl" Yang Tianzhen stood out among the various celebrities on the "hot search".
The handsome men and beauties on the red carpet are like clouds, and the "bumpy" figure she can be said to be confident and shining, to beat the crowd.
Not long ago, Yang Tianzhen sparked a heated discussion about signing five "big girls" with their own merits.
"Big size girl" as a personality or selling point may be deliberately planned and operated by its commercial team, but at the moment when a "white thin young" aesthetic dominates the rivers and lakes, the "big size girl" stepped onto the red carpet with a confident posture. Appearing in the spotlight, there is undoubtedly a positive meaning in advocating social aesthetic pluralism.
In the era of uniform pursuit of "white, thin and young" aesthetics, we should give some applause to "big girls".
Jiang Wen once said in a talk show: You can say that human technology is advancing, but humans themselves have not changed much. Every day, they are still worrying about the growth of the body.
The king of Chu has a thin waist, and many starve to death in the palace.
If the quirks in the courtyard of the ancient emperors’ palaces guided the social aesthetics and trends of the time, then who is creating "appearance anxiety" in the current society?
A simple reasoning may be able to help us make a difference.
It depends on who is most profitable by advocating "white, thin and young" aesthetics and encouraging normal people to step onto the "plastic" operating table.
Just take a look at the many plastic surgery and weight-loss institutions around us, and you can get a glimpse of it.
Rhinoplasty, bone grinding, filling, liposuction...
In recent years, my country's medical aesthetics industry has accelerated its growth, user needs continue to iterate, and medical aesthetics consumption has moved from a "niche" to a "mass".
According to the data of the "Insight White Paper on China's Medical Beauty Industry in 2020" released by iResearch, the scale of China's medical beauty market reached 176.9 billion yuan in 2019, with a growth rate of 22.2%; in 2019, there were 13.672 million Chinese medical beauty users, and it is predicted that the medical beauty market in 2023 The number of US users reached 25.483 million.
The economy of hundreds of billions of value is advancing all the way.
As an industry, there is nothing wrong with it, but selling a single aesthetic concept and value is questionable.
The one-dimensional pursuit of aesthetics directly or indirectly leads to social appearance anxiety and the increasing "involution" of people's self-image management.
According to media reports, in recent years, many high school students have just left the college entrance examination room and walked into the door of medical aesthetics institutions the next day.
After finishing the spelling study, continue to spell the value of the face.
Appearance anxiety is increasingly spreading to younger age groups.
At the same time, a social phenomenon of twisting has appeared: on the one hand, there are various food anchors, all kinds of food, scents, and exotic smells, which lure your stomach; on the other side, all kinds of plastic surgery advertisements and weight loss promotion are everywhere. Remind you: "Fat" is disease, and ugliness is "sin".
A group of people encourage you to gluttonous, another group of people call you "liposuction".
Looking at the same "awl face" and "snake face", I secretly thought that there is really no shoehorn face or pig waist face with personality.
In fact, fashion has always been inclusive.
Really shocking beauty is always closely related to the self-affirmation and self-acceptance deep in the heart.
Winnie Harlow, a Canadian model with vitiligo, is the world's supermodel; the wide gap between her front teeth did not affect Lindsay Wixon's becoming an American supermodel, but became her unique symbol.
Some fast fashion brands increasingly prefer to use the elderly as models, advocating a trend and fashion that has no age difference.
A few days ago, the girl who survived the Wenchuan earthquake walked on the show with mechanical legs. Wouldn't we also call this the real "supermodel"?
Fat, thin, ugly and beautiful, who has the right to define it as a problem and a disease?
We also need to reflect on whether it is necessary for us to abide by this definition?
Beauty, there are so many yuan, why the same thing.
The ring is fat and thin, each has its own beauty. The "big girl" stepped onto the red carpet to win applause. This is a good beginning to break the one-dimensional aesthetic of "white thin and young".