A Canadian study has found that refraining from social media for a week can have a positive impact on one's body image. Young women are particularly vulnerable to internalizing certain ideas of beauty For many young people on social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, it's hard to escape the beauty ideals and standards that are circulating, and …
“Just say no!” Supposedly this is the way to stop all manner of bad things — drugs, drink, sex, even beauty practices. That a few women — and its nearly always women — stop body-work will do anything to slow the rising demands of beauty is not at all obvious. There are no systematic arguments for why individual resistance, abstinence, …
