Selfie culture has virtues, but it also has a focus on thinness, whiteness, and idealized beauty, highlighting ways that girls and women are “supposed” to look. In all forms of media, for example, girls and women are at least four times more likely to be portrayed as underweight and physically diminished, conveying fragility, weakness, and helplessness. The more physically winnowed a girl is, the more socially popular she might become.
