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In reply to the discussion: Hey women [View all]BainsBane
(57,294 posts)The biological imperative is toward perpetuation of the species. Nothing in the buying and selling of photoshopped images accomplishes that. Then there is the fact is there is nothing constant or biological about notions of beauty. That SI chooses thin, white women whose hips would have trouble accommodating childbirth has nothing to do with biology. It is a function of beauty standards of the dominant capitalist culture of he United States of America in 2014. Sixty years ago those images were very different, even in the dominant capitalist culture of the United States of America. Add other cultural and historical contexts, the differences are even greater. The idea that there is anything biological about SI, looking at SI, or posting SI in GD is simply idiotic.