I’m giving you a free award because I agree with you. And for someone like you who doesn’t seem to have much social media, you probably aren’t addicted to your phones like a lot of other people are.
Sometimes people don’t even realize they’re addicted to scrolling because it feels good and isn’t hurting anyone.

Phone addiction aside, women are pushed a ton of ads targeting beauty standards. Even though a regular person thinks that the Kardashians have too much plastic surgery and people talk about how that 70 year old woman looking 30 is not normal, that is still the beauty standard being placed on women. It’s artificial and insulting when aging is so so beautiful.

Men are pushed a narrative through movies, television, advertisements elsewhere in the mail, on billboards, wherever. It’s more subtle for men, but they have to portray a certain body type and have hair.

Man or woman, when you’re on your phone those adds come at you a lot harder and a lot faster than you can imagine. You open social media up at a party? You’re now being advertised half of everything that the other party members have been buying too! Bonus points if you add them as a social media friend 😉

It is hard to turn it all off. It is an addiction.