- Hugh_Jeggs ( @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ) 81•4 months ago
I’m now at a point that I can’t watch American media at all because everyone just looks the fuckin same.
Generic actress no.495 with horrifyingly white teeth Vs generic actor no.5638 with horrifyingly white teeth
- varnia ( @varnia@lemm.ee ) 40•4 months ago
What’s is this with the teeth? Are they all wearing fake teeth? Don’t tell me everyone has such a great mouth hygiene and dental care with sugar in everything you eat in US?
- unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) 52•4 months ago
Serious answer? Yes. They often have either bleached teeth, which eventually destroys them so then they need veneers (fake front) and after that they get dentures.
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 13•4 months ago
What.
Just…what.
Where are you getting this information? You’re talking about the US, where we have excellent healthcare for people who can afford it, and those people can fuckin afford it.
- unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) 29•4 months ago
Being rich does not make people smart.
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 2•4 months ago
…okay? What does that have to do with anything? Are you okay?
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•4 months ago
that’s a pretty ironic comment lol
- ramirezmike ( @ramirezmike@programming.dev ) 12•4 months ago
Americans have really white teeth compared to the rest of the world, especially in hollywood
- Hugh_Jeggs ( @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ) 10•4 months ago
Imagine thinking that
where we have excellent healthcare for people who can afford it
Is something to be proud of.
Christ on a bike
- Duranie ( @Duranie@literature.cafe ) 12•4 months ago
I don’t think that was being stated as a point of pride. It’s just the shitty state of things here.
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 2•4 months ago
No, you were very much misreading the comment. They just threw a crazy factoid out there. And then followed with a non sequitur about “rich =/= smart.” And why would my confusion mean I love privatized medicine?
I mean, you’re not wrong about me being smarter than the rest of you. I’m just choosing to ignore the part where it’s only in my head. Because I’m so much smarter. (jk)
- iheartneopets ( @iheartneopets@lemm.ee ) 5•4 months ago
Unfortunately it’s true. It’s pretty well known in beauty/aesthetic procedure spaces, which many celebrities inhabit. It’s why so many have samey looking teeth, it’s wild.
- adderaline ( @ondoyant@beehaw.org ) English4•4 months ago
its not completely wrong. getting cosmetic veneers is a pretty common practice in hollywood. they don’t cause your teeth to decay or whatever, but lots of celebs have them.
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 1•4 months ago
Don’t forget the wholesale smoking since they’re teenagers.
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) 27•4 months ago
Usually I don’t notice but it was pretty jarring in Book of Boba Fett. The guy was all dusty living in a desert and then he smiles and his teeth are blindingly white. I was like… Damn Disney you can’t afford the makeup department to dirty those up a bit?
- bane_killgrind ( @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml ) English1•4 months ago
Might not be any bacteria that cause tooth decay.
- ramble81 ( @ramble81@lemm.ee ) 27•4 months ago
It’s even sadder when you have an actor(ess) that is beautiful in their own way and then gets surgery or something else to conform to the way everyone else looks.
- JeffKerman1999 ( @JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ) 10•4 months ago
Case is point: the actress that was playing Starlight in “The boys”
- Lemonparty ( @Lemonparty@lemm.ee ) 3•4 months ago
I am American and I am not offended by this. I’m not even sure I disagree
- cumskin_genocide ( @cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ) 58•4 months ago
They just mean not white
- meseek #2982 ( @ultratiem@lemmy.ca ) 8•4 months ago
Oh. I thought she was the Hollywood version of “ugly”
- iheartneopets ( @iheartneopets@lemm.ee ) 3•4 months ago
Exactly
- urska ( @urska@lemmy.ca ) 8•4 months ago
shes half indian, so I understand the director
Is this the women from Mr Robot or do I suck at faces?
- ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English3•4 months ago
Are you confusing her for Carly Chaikin?
I was and it is now confirmed I suck at faces.
Thanks.
- dandelion ( @dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•3 months ago
It seems like a lot of people are just not reading the article or the context of the quote:
Now, this is not Holland saying that Chalotra is ugly, or that they cast someone ugly to play the role of the most beautiful woman in the world. … Rather, Holland is saying that she is challenging the “standard of beauty” by casting a woman with slightly darker skin.
I do understand that traditional Western fantasy is predominantly white, but I disagree fundamentally with the notion that the “standard of beauty” for most people is being white. I don’t think anyone in the entire world outside of a tiny, tiny sliver of absolute racist scumbags would look at Anya Chalotra and think anything other than “This woman is jaw-droppingly gorgeous.” Casting Chalotra may challenge our perceptions of fantasy as white (a complicated discussion on its own) but it does nothing to challenge any standard of beauty.
Emphasis is mine.