“Think of cocaine. In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. That's when it becomes addictive. Beauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form. You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks. Biologists call this "supernormal stimulus" [...] Our beauty receptors receive more stimulation than they were evolved to handle; we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives. How? The way any drug becomes a problem: by interfering with our relationships with other people. We become dissatisfied with the way ordinary people look because they can't compare to supermodels.” BeautyAdvertisingAestheticsAdvertisementsBeauty StandardsSupermodelsUnrealistic Standards Book:Stories of Your Life and Others Source: Stories of Your Life and Others
“Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission.” Domestic ViolenceSupermodelsWomens S FictionNotions Of Beauty Book:Lime Source: Lime
“Maybe it's that time of the month because those super cramps can really turn a supermodel into a super bitch.” Supermodels Author:Dwayne McDuffie