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

It doesn't just have to do with beauty.

How do we look at a world where the incentives are so anti human?

And how do we deal with it?

How do we live within it?

And how do we where do we hold our ground?

And I think the answer is specific to every person, but I think

I think specifically with me, I I wrote about optimization in my book in twenty seventeen and and after I wrote about it it became clear that I could feel a difference within myself.

I f I could feel a difference from wanting to perpetually improve and perfect versus trying to take care.

And I think just on a personal level, that's the division I'm trying to draw for myself, right?

That I can enjoy going to yoga.

trying to get stronger, you know, I mean I dye my hair blonde, you know, I wear makeup every day.

Like I I have no cred as, you know, a second wave radical that's resisting this altogether.

And you know, I don't think it's wrong to want to be beautiful.

And from a young age we probably also understood there's kind of a pleasure in seeing like, what could I be?

Girls are lovely, girls wanna self improve.

It's a right of past the way that and the way that that gets captured by these systems is almost what I wanna you know, what I feel the desire to protect in my daughter.

How do we separate the desire to kind of

make something of yourself from the desire that will lead you straight to capture in all of these systems.

And I think I think for me, you know, I just never want her to see me.

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