Professor Heather Widdows on harms of 'lookism'
Insults based on body weight or looks do as much harm as racism, an academic has claimed and we should adopt the same 'zero tolerance' approach.
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Insults based on body weight or looks do as much harm as racism, an academic has claimed and we should adopt the same 'zero tolerance' approach.
A family dinner is ruined when an opinionated brother-in-law becomes disgusted by his sister-in-law's leg hair.
(MENAFN - The Conversation) #EverydayLookism is a campaign which shares 'lookist stories. Lookism is appearance discrimination and the most common form of bullying as reported in the Annual Bullying Survey by DITCH THE LABEL, but unlike sexist or racist bullying, it is too often accepted as normal. We don't put up with sexist comments, we shouldn't put up with lookist comments. The Everyday Sexism project shared sexist stories, we share lookist stories to show its not ok. We should be ashamed of bodyshaming, not of our bodies. The #EverydayLookism Facebook Live series is three live panel di...
Normal text size Very large text size When I was a teenager, beauty was low-tech. It was also DIY. Nobody I knew ever went to a salon for anything other than a haircut or colour (or, in the â90s, god forbid, a perm). Instead, we attempted to live our best beauty-therapy lives at home: waxing, bleaching, masking (the mud pack variety, rather than the global pandemic one), French manicuring. Oh, the French manicure, the pink-polished nail, finished with a fine white line painted along its tip: surely the very definition of the pointless, impossible beauty task. We must have been mad.