Male beauty standards are becoming increasingly unattainable — and unhealthy.
In January, Ryan Murphy’s new show The Beauty premiered on FX and Hulu. The premise: A sexually transmitted infection results in physical perfection, so people start trying to catch it, even when it becomes clear that the side effects kill.
It’s a lot to unpack, particularly for gay and queer people who know firsthand how a virus can be mythologized, weaponized, feared, desired: It strikes me as an obvious reference to bug-chasing and AIDS panic as much as it is a commentary on consumer culture and the beauty industry. In Murphy’s glossy, body-horror nightmare — starring Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Rebecca Hall, and Ashton Kutcher — the flesh you’re born with becomes a kind of poverty, but upgrading it might kill you…
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(Source: Out.com)
