Schmeitgeist

ABC Everyday

Schmeitgeist is the pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday where we decode the biggest and weirdest trends. You’ll meet self-professed bimbo feminists, fall down the rabbit hole of edgy, online Catholicism, find out how an entire generation got to be mad at capitalism and allergic to monogamy. Every week, journalist and comedian Ange Lavoipierre goes inside the most defining trends of the moment to investigate how we got here, and what’s next.

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Schmeitgeist

Episodes (20)

Jun 13, 2023 How we swapped a decade of 'body positivity' progress for the ultra-thin look
Jun 13, 2023 How a decade of 'body positivity' progress was usurped by the ultra-thin look
Jun 6, 2023 Landlord hate and Nepo Babies: how young people lost faith in capitalism

Schmeitgeist

Jun 13, 2023
38¼ minutes
88 MB

The 'body positivity' decade is over, and the ultra-skinny look has made a return. The message that all bodies are beautiful has given way to a resurgence in diet culture and obsessive body checking on TikTok and Instagram. So what happened to all that supposed progress, and why are we suddenly backsliding into the toxic size standards of the 90s and 2000s? Or maybe the notion of thinness as a virtue never really went away? In this episode of Schmeitgeist, we investigate the reasons why ten years of body positivity messaging has seemingly evaporated. We're also exploding some of the...

Schmeitgeist

How we swapped a decade of 'body positivity' progress for the ultra-thin look

ABC Everyday

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