An epidemic of beauty sickness | Renee Engeln | TEDxUConn 2013
Girls grow up hearing both implicit and explicit messages suggesting that the most important attribute they can strive for is beauty. The chronic focus on beauty ...
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Translator: Robert Tucker Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo So, today's theme is the future. I'm going to talk about a growing epidemic and what we might do to stop it. But first I'm going to start in the past. About 15 years ago, I was an eager, young, graduate student and I spent a lot of time teaching. I really liked my students, I got to know them very well, and the more I listened to my female students, the more I picked up on something troubling. These bright, talented, young women were spending alarming amounts of time thinking about, talking about, trying to modify their physical appearance. They wanted so much to feel beautiful. Now, our perceptions of beauty are complicated. They have deep evolutionary roots. From a scientific perspective, beauty is not just des...
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Translator: Robert Tucker Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo So, today's theme is the future. I'm going to talk about a growing epidemic and what we might do to stop it. But first I'm going to start in the past. About 15 years ago, I was an eager, young, graduate student and I spent a lot of time teaching. I really liked my students, I got to know them very well, and the more I listened to my female students, the more I picked up on something troubling. These bright, talented, young women were spending alarming amounts of time thinking about, talking about, trying to modify their physical appearance. They wanted so much to feel beautiful. Now, our perceptions of beauty are complicated. They have deep evolutionary roots. From a scientific perspective, beauty is not just des...
