She’s a strident activist and he’s a piece of YouTube trash, but they both point out how far our culture still needs to go in terms of understanding health.
Criticism that Kylie Jenner’s new “walnut face scrub” is unsafe only points to a symptom of the wider problem of social media influencers becoming mouthpieces for companies who don’t care about consumer safety.
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.