To the editor: I’m confused, as a result of your article on preteen “skinfluencers” says these youngsters are exhibiting off their multi-hundred-dollar hauls of make-up and different merchandise on TikTok.
Do these youngsters have jobs? How do they pay for his or her costly hauls? Oh, that should be their millennial dad and mom.
However every thing I hear about millennials is that they will’t afford houses and are struggling below crushing school debt. What am I lacking?
Plus, I’m positive these millennial father or mother enablers are nicely conscious that each technology has had an unimaginable instance of what magnificence needs to be, and that has pushed them to unrealistic expectations, physique dysmorphia and despair. Why are they organising their youngsters for that kind of future? What’s going to occur to those youngsters’ psychological well being once they develop up and have actual pores and skin points?
Looks like two robust catalysts for low shallowness, despair and psychological well being points are at play right here: social media and physique dysmorphia. We’ll be studying about that within the L.A. Occasions in 5 or 10 years.
Kathi Weiner, Dana Level
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To the editor: I don’t perceive the brouhaha over preteens’ obsession with skin-care merchandise.
With at present’s unhappy statistics about isolation, despair and even suicide amongst youngsters, it doesn’t seem to be such a horrible concept for youths to exit to the mall with pals to check out magnificence merchandise. As an alternative of gazing their telephones, ladies are socializing, interacting with adults and specializing in self-improvement.
And the way can anybody fault a “skinfluencer” for posting a video on “find out how to behave politely in shops”? Millennials could ask why a 12-year-old wants a “pumpkin peel” — I’m undecided why a 35-year-old wants one.
Kendall Wolf, Encino
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To the editor: What? No point out of pimples throughout puberty?
It should have been a gradual information day. No matter occurred to “man bites canine” tales?
Oliver Seely, Lakewood
