{"id":19845,"date":"2025-04-23T21:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=19845"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:25:35","slug":"ive-always-thought-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/ive-always-thought-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve always thought this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>from jessica defino\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/jessicadefino.substack.com\/p\/real-teeth-vs-veneers?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=43028&amp;post_id=161957666&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=f7j3&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">great newsletter<\/a> \u2014 bolding my own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Another theory: after a decade of algorithm-approved flawlessness, the beauty standard has gone&nbsp;<em>flawsome<\/em>, a term coined by Tyra Banks on America\u2019s Next Top Model. Banks encouraged up-and-coming models to see a physical<em>&nbsp;<\/em>\u201cflaw\u201d \u2013 a large forehead, wide-set eyes or, yes, gapped teeth \u2013 as an asset, something to set them apart in a sea of homogeneously beautiful women. <strong>Crucially, this quirk could&nbsp;<em>only&nbsp;<\/em>function as beauty capital if the model embodied the beauty standard in every other way: thin, young, smooth and taut, with otherwise symmetrical and\/or desirable features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I always thought about it in regard to pj harvey \u2014 her thinness allowed her so much latitude in terms of her looks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from jessica defino\u2019s great newsletter \u2014 bolding my own: Another theory: after a decade of algorithm-approved flawlessness, the beauty standard has gone&nbsp;flawsome, a term coined by Tyra Banks on America\u2019s Next Top Model. Banks encouraged up-and-coming models to see a physical&nbsp;\u201cflaw\u201d \u2013 a large forehead, wide-set eyes or, yes, gapped teeth \u2013 as an asset, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-19845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19855,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19845\/revisions\/19855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}