Culture
The War On Beauty
Our world is at war with beauty. From the plastic and overwrought worlds of reality stars and Instagram influencers on the one hand to the body positivity movement celebrating morbid obesity on the other, we're bombarded by images of the grotesque.
By Barbara Boland2 min read
Women are being sold false beauty ideals – or rather, that there is no "ideal." All bodies are beautiful, we're told relentlessly by the body positivity movement. And yet, when everything is beautiful, nothing is.