Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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556 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

The most wonderful things about you will

will be captured and rendered inadequate by the phone.

And and I think that's true, you know, with I think that will be true with her inevitably her relationship to her physical self.

She'll find herself

Perfect and amazing until she sees the things on the screen that start to tell her

you can find fault and you can improve.

And I you know, I guess I think about my own behavior as the only thing I can really control.

You know, I

I guess I want her to see me.

valorizing the human and valorizing, you know, the actual human and not trying to improve and protect and beautify myself and my life in a way that where it seems like that's a a priority.

How do you do that?

Because

I mean, you write that the beauty ideal is basically a mark of obedience and then you admit on many days you still want it.

You want to be seen as conventionally attractive.

And I'm not gonna lie, even at my big old age I want it too.

So how do you even resist something that you still want?

Yeah.

I think that's the question, right?

I think that's the question that this that I hope that this piece raises, right?

And and it's a larger question.

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