On AlterNet: beauty standards

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "beauty standards"

The Brotox Era: Does Male Vanity Even the Playing Field, Or Condemn Us All to Unreachable Beauty Standards?

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. January 16, 2012.

Instead of all of us accepting our flaws, are men facing new pressure to be ageless and perfect?

Impossible Beauty Standards: Jessica Alba's Airbrushed Campari Ads

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville. December 9, 2008.

If Alba can't measure up to commercial beauty standards, what does that mean for the rest of us?

The Things Women Go Through to Attract Men ...

Cheryl Saban, Huffington Post. August 21, 2008.

A mind-boggling variety of torture devices have been contrived throughout history to make women more 'attractive' to men.

Vagina Anxiety: The Rise of the Labialplasty

Jennifer Armstrong, Sirens Magazine. June 24, 2008.

Rich people, their plastic surgeons and the always-scrupulous mass media are foisting more body issues on women.

Beauty Standards Can Kill: Women\'s Deadly Desire to Enhance Their Derriere

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet December 31, 1969.