Beautiful Lies

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

So many people's New Year's resolutions are centered around getting in shape, updating their skincare routine, and generally being more attractive. But beauty ideals have a funny way of reinforcing society's ideas of who matters and why. Once you start to unpack them, things get real ugly real quick.

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0:00.0	This is Code Switch from NPR, I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.
0:04.6	And I'm Jane Demby. Happy New Year, y'all!
0:09.8	I hope you all had a great holiday season.
0:12.2	You ate well, party-tard, did all the things I know I did.
0:15.6	I ate so many carbs.
0:18.2	Jane doesn't eat carbs.
0:19.2	Exercise, weight less than I usually do.
0:23.2	So I need to get back on that hustle.
0:25.2	Get back on that grind.
0:26.2	And why is that, Mr. Demby?
0:28.2	Because I've internalized all sorts of ideas about how my body's supposed to look.
0:31.2	Exactly.
0:32.2	Perhaps because you want to look a certain way,
0:34.2	the way you think is more pleasing to the eye,
0:36.2	to look even more and I'm doing your air quotes here.
0:39.2	Attractive.
0:41.2	You know the thing goes,
0:42.2	New Year, New Year,
0:44.2	and that's when y'all run up in the gym and take up all the machines
0:46.2	and while wearing your sandals and stuff, acting up a fool.
0:49.2	But yeah, New Year, New Year.
0:51.2	Instead of focusing on your body, maybe you should get your mind right.
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