INTENTIONAL MANUFACTURE OF ODD BEAUTY (beauty)(diversity)(manospehere) —“Today

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/ashley-brokaw-profile/?emc=eta1&_r=0&utm_content=buffer62202&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=bufferTHE INTENTIONAL MANUFACTURE OF ODD BEAUTY

(beauty)(diversity)(manospehere)

—“Today, that person is less conventional and arguably odder-looking than ever before. Brokaw favors the kind of model more memorable than she is pretty. What fashion editors have long euphemistically called jolie-laide, she calls “strong.” The faces she chooses are sometimes merely a bit off-kilter but often undeniably weird and in some cases visibly asymmetrical. In print, they can seem outright radical, especially when compared to the burnished Brazilian goddesses and feline Russians of the recent past. —

—“interracial marriage (oddness), a high G.D.P. (predictive of good teeth) and protein-rich diets (good for turning out tall but trim citizens).”—

(h/t: Tyler Cowen)

attn: Don