Define “the universe”
Comment on First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards
eskimofry@lemmy.world 2 months ago
controversial take:
Objectification has been happening ever since women and men existed. Perfection is something humans have idolized and admired for a long time. Gods and godesses were drawn to be attractive and charismatic.
If the universe rewards intelligence over stupidity, why is rewarding beauty over ugliness a problem?
There is also this argument that… let people have their circus. Extreme beauty and intelligence are something people can look at and admire for a weekend as a form of escape. But this doesn’t mean people leave their partners or talk shit to their sisters “why don’t you look like her”, etc.
I guess my take is missing the problem which is that young adults set false expectation of their partners and this causes problem for them later in their life. But this feels like arguing we should shut down all forms of adult entertainment because the kids will get corrupted.
z00s@lemmy.world 2 months ago
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
rewarding beauty is fine. rewarding beauty in such a way that it has an impact—not only measurable, but significant—against the mental health of the public is not fine.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Whether we reward it or not, as long as there is someone people can compare themselves to, it’s going to affect their mental health. Social media itself is a beauty competition, and the reward is attention. We tend to compare up, not down, so it doesn’t really matter how beautiful or rich someone is—there’s always someone doing even better who makes us feel insufficient.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
nope, not at all. having someone to look up to is not the same as a barage of media and advertising soaked with the intent of amplifying and capitalizing off of body dissatisfaction and self hatred.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If Pixelfed were as popular as Instagram, it would have virtually the same effect on the mental health of young girls, especially. While an advertising-based business model does influence this, it’s not the driving factor. Social comparison is in our genes, but never before have we been able to do it at this scale. This is guaranteed to have a negative effect on mental health. The issue however is not that social media is inherently bad; it’s just incompatible with the way humans behave. It’s like drugs.
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let’s stop this malicious practice of giving Nobel prizes!
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
as soon as there is evidence that nobel prizes cause mental health problems i will be saying this lol
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s plenty of evidence that peer and family pressure during studying severely affects mental health of many and often leads to suicides.