• fossphi@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Fair enough, there’s most probably some room for ethical consumption of cosmetics and make up. But by far, the large majority of this industry is driven by the capitalist need for consumption and misogyny

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      9 hours ago

      Why would the capitalists want misogyny? They don’t care about women’s self esteem - just their money.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, but this this kinda hatred drives consumption even more.

        A recent example would be how the advertising and tracking/recommendation algorithms at Instagram recognised that when teen girls were deleting their selfies, that is the time to shove cosmetic ads to them.

        I mean one could argue that there isn’t any real intent to misogyny from the capitalist ruling class, but I’d be more inclined towards believing that this is done with some intent. Keeping the people divided and whatnot