Pretty Hurts

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Some may think of beauty as frivolous and fun, but on this episode, we're examining a few of the ugly ways that its been used to project power.

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0:00.0	Shrine, who's the most beautiful person that you can think of?
0:06.6	My mommy.
0:08.6	Oh.
0:09.6	My Titi Wanda.
0:10.6	They are very beautiful.
0:13.1	There's Instagram proof.
0:15.3	What about you, GD?
0:16.3	Well, my fiance obviously.
0:18.0	Oh, obviously yes.
0:19.4	Good, Amber.
0:20.4	I'm not trying to get trouble.
0:22.4	It's true.
0:23.4	It happens to be true, but also I'm not trying to.
0:24.7	She is very beautiful.
0:27.0	But also, I mean, Tiana Paris is like.
0:30.6	Why are you doing that to yourself?
0:32.0	Yeah, no.
0:32.8	That's going to be a conversation later.
0:34.0	Anyway.
0:34.5	It is.
0:35.5	So for thousands of years, people have been trying to figure out
0:38.5	to wrap their minds around what constitutes beauty.
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