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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd rather spend a 3-day weekend getting lubelessly ravaged beneath a busy highway overpass by the hairiest troll in all of fiction than 3 minutes making small talk with one of those melty-faced nuclear wasteland refugees.

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait what, the she-devil looked natural and human once?

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Mecha-Karen would like you to delete this comment.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I am powerful and wealthy enough to look this monstrous"

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And it requires you to STAY in that power and wealth. These sorts of treatments require a lot of regular upkeep and maintenance injections and monitoring.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It's also as disgusting-looking a parody of what healthy-woman is, as can be.

Like that aweful ultra-unhealthy shit "brazzers" has made themselves famous-for, pushing all over the world.


it's partly self-selection: if making ourselves unhealhy, grotesque, & retarded-looking, proves "membership in the club", then .. people born into that culture are obliged to prefer it.

How utterly-depressing, that for-profit "culture" could do that to humanity, so successfully.


So, there's at-least 2 sides to it: push & pull..

The only people who would push women to do that to themselves .. don't value women.

& finding women who willingly do that to themselves, & making them out to be "leaders" among women, is how the pull side of the equation's drive works..

there's some other dimension going-on.. that isn't enough..

maybe identity-anchoring is sufficient to explain the rest of the current in its going-on, but .. I don't believe-so:

there's something else going-on, too..

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[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's like any other "beauty" trend, except that it got associated with maga. We don't need to over think it.