[lambdapie]

Some people are more attractive, cooler, more interesting, than others. It's not some evil plot by the corporations to make us feel bad about ourselves. These people are really out there. The left wing narrative that all bad things that happen to us stem from some structural power imbalance in our society, is blind to this fact of nature. So they need strange stories like this to explain away the apparent differences in how popular and cool people are.

[AlexEatsKittens]

You'd don't think corporations use marketing to intentionally make people feel bad about themselves?

[lambdapie]

Maybe some do, but there is a distinction between intentionally making people feel bad about themselves, and advertisements that simply holding up some look or personality as attractive/cool. Some people might interpret the latter as an attempt to make people feel bad about themselves, but I respectfully disagree.

When it comes to intentionally making people feel bad about themselves, I don't see much of this, since negative advertising is not very popular. Most advertising I see is motivational/aspirational, i.e. showing people an image that people believe they can attain.

[bediger4000]

Why try to paint a political narrative over this?

[PhasmaFelis]

I like how you're ignoring the testimony of an actual attractive/cool/popular person to make your point about attractive/cool/popular people.

[lambdapie]

I know plenty of attractive/cool/popular people, who get hundreds of likes, and don't claim to fit this victim narrative.