Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by civilized on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:41AM (#34907543)

Indeed, I am glad someone said this. The GP comment places its entire focus on young women as victims of vague cultural forces. Such an analysis seems decades out of date at this point, and does not consider the complex real-world experiences and tremendous personal agency of these women.

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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by fleddr on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:43AM (#34909706)

To simplify the reasoning about this dynamic, I call it the duck lip effect.

At what point did "society" ask for duck lips? Where exactly did specifically men ask for it and actively select for it? If anything, they widely reject it. The expectation for duck lips does not exist, it was spontaneously fabricated by female influencers and that puts the idea and "expectation" in young girls' heads.

In other words, for as a long as we richly reward female influencers setting exactly the wrong example and being awful role models, this carries on.

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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by civilized on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:34AM (#34910346)

I think if you put ten random women in a house for a week, you're going to get girl drama and pictures of duck lips. Just like if you put ten random men in a house for a week, you're going to get wrestling and videos of Jackass stunts.

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