This is such a wild departure from real beauty pageants, which have always been known for pushing realistic beauty standards and for making normal women feel good about their bodies.
This is like a black hole of stupid. Everyone involved (participants, observers, and whiners) should feel such deep and incredible shame that any of us had to read this headline.
Well they were trained on the mainstream media’s pushing of unrealistic beauty standards…
None of this makes any sense to me. I’m not defending any part of it, but I also don’t really understand the bits about objectifying women (the AI is literally an object and it can’t be anything else) or pushing impossible beauty standards on women - these are drawings. Why would a girl feel pressured to look as good as an image that doesn’t have actual bones or organs or skin pores - not even fucking gravity.
But that confusion aside, this is just the stupidest thing ever. There is no artistry. There is no, you know, working to stay in shape or applying makeup just so. It’s all a bunch of fake stupidity and I can’t understand why anyone would care at all about this, much less deign to critique it from a feminist perspective. It doesn’t seem worthy of spending the time analyzing it to that degree.
Of course I’ve just wasted two paragraphs of my life on it so I guess I shouldn’t cast stones.
Why would a girl feel pressured to look as good as an image that doesn’t have actual bones or organs or skin pores - not even fucking gravity.
If you can interpret it as an image of a woman then there is correlation. What they are sourced from doesn’t make a difference.
Do you think photoshopped images or makeup also don’t change perception and consequently influence beauty standards? Those are also not based on the inherent physical properties of the original bodies.
