The pressure to conform to very limited beauty
standards has (as today’s guest would say) an ethical side — if you
don’t use this 12 step skin care regiment or get your yoga body
toned or find the perfect selfie angle, then you are letting
yourself down. You are letting yourself go. The line for what’s
normal keeps moving until we are all now plucking, waxing, toning,
not eating carbs, manicuring, injecting poison into our faces,
without asking ourselves why or if we’re allowed to NOT do these
things.
Jessa calls Heather Widdows, John Ferguson
Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham to
discuss these ideas as well as her book, “Perfect Me: Beauty as an
Ethical Ideal.”
Complicated conversations with complicated people about complicated topics. Let's get into the real mess of gender, feminism, punishment, class, politics, and culture and leave easy rhetoric and jingoism behind. Hosted by Jessa Crispin.