with all the filters that make everyone look like 12 year olds.

Makes we wonder what the average person finds attractive these days....

Just like magazines were putting unrealistic expectations on us as youth, now social media has taken over and pushes all these aspects on young women.

I think it is worse than that, or perhaps it is that I am old. The magazines were relatively unrealistic through the choices of models, but a lot of those models were actual people, just an extreme of the population. What they are doing now id having people alter their own bodies digitally, pinching and enhancing this and that - yet they still have the mirror to contend with. Looking at all those pictures of yourself looking beautiful but then, having to stare at reality's reflection each morning and night. This is where the disconnection from the self comes in - it is a split personality between reality of oneself and the desired reality of what one manipulates oneself to be.

Some people got fitter during Covid - I wasn't one of them :)