EVERYTHING pushes unhealthy beauty standards, young girls are obsessed with their youth and beauty in their 20's getting Botox Injection for the slightest wrinkles, lip fillers and so on ... all those treatments require maintenance and upkeep
To be fair - I have seen this all my life. When I was a kid, the rage was super skinny bodies and girls were builimic and anorexic. In my mother's age, they did all kinds of things to their waists and bodies and hair and eyelashes and eyebrows. They invented some of the STUPIDEST machines that claimed to reduce fat on the ass and waist - and I remember my aunts who had them.
I do not see THAT as being any different. I tell my girls every day they are extraordinarily beautiful and they roll their eyes and dismiss it - thinking they're at best, homely. Teenage girls will ALWAYS think that, TikTok notwithstanding. Older women succumb to the same thing.
I do think there's a social trend to not just get upset over the slightest thing - but required to always show outrage.
Years ago, I had a course in college regarding religious history in North America, and there arose a pattern - a huge wave of revival - which would spawn great rallies, huge resurgence of religious interest, hymns written, new movements arising.
Followed by a whole generation of religious disinterest.
Readers of the Bible notice this pattern in hte book of Judges. Religous revival. Prosperity. Abandonment of religion. Oppression by foreign invaders. A call for a deliverer. Religious revival. Repeat.
I think we are seeing this. I don't buy into the idiotic concept that every older generation claims it had life harder and the younger generation has totally gone to seed - it's not a progression, it's a cycle. Sometimes, the younger generation has to live through a depression and a world war - while their parents lived through an extremely prosperous 20's. Or earlier - endure the rise of communism and the war to end all wars - while their parents lived through the prosperity of the 1880s and 1890s.
And so, we will have a generation of - well, "The Greatest Generation". One borne from pain, suffering and come out better.
And they then raise a generation born into prosperity - and don't appreciate it.