beauty standards

We know Ellis Ross is fun and has an offbeat style, but her hairstyle felt like a caricature, and one that was completely unnecessary because there are Black women who have the kind of hair she seemed to be trying to mimic.

In the nexus of celebrity, visual media, and fervent self-improvement, body-positivity promotes the strange ideal that being beautiful isn’t better, but feeling beautiful is.

Your cellulite is excellent, and these days not even Barbie has a thigh gap.

Urban Dictionary defines “The Pete Davidson Effect” as: “When women are influenced by their peers in determining if a man is attractive or not.”