#this is lookism

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Toothpaste ads that make sure to tell you how gross and repulsive the natural color of your teeth are. Teeth are yellow. Only infants and people who bleach their teeth and degrade their enamel have white teeth. But the beauty industry has convinced people that they need whitening stripes and peroxide so they don’t look natural, because natural is gross according to advertising. “Good news! We can cure your teeth being the color that teeth are, which has never been a problem until we made it one! Fuck you!” If I have to see one more Crest ad of some woman in despair because her teeth aren’t the color of bleached paper, I’m going to fistfight a cosmetic dentist.

This is lookism that stems from ableism.

@thisis--ableism

[this-is-lookism]

lookism is when people claim an artists' art style was always "ugly" the second said artist becomes problematic

This is adjacent to lookism, it's also following the idea that beauty is the equator to Goodness and Uglynes to badness, but it's not exactactly about someone's looks (real or fictional), but the artstyle of the creator.

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the "breed out the ugly" challenge in the sims.

not only is it lookism, it's also eugenics 🫠

This is lookism and eugenics.

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how the animal crossing fandom treats alot of the game's villagers :(

I'm not very inside this fandom, but if they treat a lot of the villagers badly/don't want them depending on their appearance (also probably very connected with what animals are considered better, like people seeing mammals as more important than insects/fish/etc... Which is speciesism.), but also based on how close they look to conventionally attractive, then it is lookism.

@thisis-speciesism

[this-is-lookism]

lookism is roblox's new promotional video containing a lyric: "working at a pizza place, looking like a pizza face!" followed by showing a chef character with visible acne holding up pizza.

there are children and teenagers playing roblox, who have intense acne due to hormonal issues. there are people with their biggest insecurities being acne, there are people who have been bullied over acne, there are people who cannot even look at themselves in the mirror because they think it looks awful on themself.

and an (already shitty) multimillionaire corporate company is making fun of them. great job!

This is lookism and disfiguremisia.

[this-is-lookism]

being given dirty looks by parents of young kids (or telling the kid to avoid 'people who look like that') because i have scars, am plus sized, dress and dye my hair in a way i like and use mobility aids even though i 'look healthy' or 'should just work out more'

(not sure this is lookism so just delete this if it doesn't count. love the blog <3)

This is lookism based in deformisia/disfiguremisia (for the scars), fatphobia, and ableism (for the mobility aids).

@this-is-fatphobia @this-is-deformimisia @thisis--ableism

Also! Tysm! I'm glad you like the blog!

[this-is-lookism]

I have one. When people see "ugly" (this can go for balding/plus sized/visibly disabled/etc) people get married and they comment "What am I doing wrong?" As if they automatically deserve a relationship/marriage based on their looks alone.

This is lookism and amatonormativity.