
How New Media Contributes To The Beauty Myth
One thing that has always amused me about certain cultural “truths” is how there is often nothing true at all about them. I remember interviewing many people—young and old, male and female, gay and straight—in the 1990s about their conceptions of beauty using the model of 1970’s beauty standards and iconography from the US television program, Charlie’s Angels. I was surprised to learn that the majority of my subjects found that they deemed the most beautiful “angel” to be Kate Jackson, not Jacly