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"Heroin Chic": How Racism Created the Thin Ideal
WNYC ^
| 12/5/22
| WNYC
Posted on 02/25/2024 12:51:07 PM PST by DallasBiff
A recent headline declared "bye bye booty, heroin chic is back," referring to a fashion look in the 1990s and 2000s that glorified women with ultra-thin figures. But the backlash to the headlines from people recalling how this trend harmed their relationships with food and their bodies, shows that plenty of people are not interested in going back. So what really makes a "trend" go in and out of fashion?
Professor Sabrina Strings says that while we may have had a few years in which having curves was considered fashionable, the thin ideal has never truly gone "out" of style. It's older than America itself — but just like America, it’s rooted in racist hierarchies.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepublic; heroinchic; jimknows; racism; recognizemeplease; weallknow; whocares
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WTF? Now I see obese white and black women on commercials.
Heroin chic was a NYC advertising campaign, and 99% of the pictures were of anoerexic women.
To: DallasBiff
"It's older than America itself — but just like America, it’s rooted in racist hierarchies"ESAD WNYC
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:54:15 PM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: DallasBiff
It must be exhausting, looking for that Cracker in a white hood and robe, everywhere, every waking moment.
If racism is so pervasive and overwhelming, why don't they, just, go to the utopia of Wakanda?
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:56:20 PM PST
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: DallasBiff
Thin is ok, but anorexic is just wrong.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:59:52 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: Eagles6
Victor Hanson is always expressing surprise that so many people from all over the world want to come to this racist sh!thole of a country. It is so puzzling, isn’t it?
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:00:41 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: All
Woke victoria's secret ad.
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:03:01 PM PST
by
Liz
(Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:03:03 PM PST
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: DallasBiff
Being thin is where it's been,
but being fat is where it's at.
Victor Buono
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:04:53 PM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: Eagles6
Well Whitney Houston was not fat.
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:05:58 PM PST
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:06:21 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: EvilCapitalist
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:06:53 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DallasBiff
I made myself a vow when I was a teenager... I'd never do a chick who's ass is bigger than mine. Maintaining my body and 32” waist, I can still fit into my plaid Bell Bottoms from the 70s!! No room for fat broads in my life!! Cheers to no cellulite!!!
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:07:29 PM PST
by
sit-rep
To: DallasBiff
“the thin ideal has never truly gone “out” of style. It’s older than America itself — but just like America, it’s rooted in racist hierarchies.”
Wrong. American culture associated the zaftig figure with being rich. Thin was associated with being poor. Black academics like racist string bean are a joke.
To: Liz
That’s a dude on the right side, isn’t it?
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:30:18 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: DallasBiff
i’d rather be skinny than fat
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:32:47 PM PST
by
ronniesgal
(have you even tried to mind your own business?)
To: DallasBiff; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv
“Heroin thin” was a NY-London-Paris “fashion trend” but invented and nutured by the homosexual woman-despising fashion industry. How many fantasize young boys’ figures when they drape skinny teenage models?
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:37:08 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: Liz
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:38:01 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
To: EvilCapitalist
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:39:33 PM PST
by
Liz
(Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
To: Liz
The turtleneck sweater makes me think “she” has an adam’s apple to hide.
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posted on
02/25/2024 1:41:05 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: Liz
I would never say anything hurtful to a woman who carried some excess pounds. I am not rude.
But holding fatties up as symbols of beauty? Don’t insult me. They are not attractive. That industry trend really annoys me.
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