Seems logical, right? Unless it’s only interested in teeth that fell out naturally.

When millenials were young, they were directly experiencing red eye photos, so there’s no way this meme could have ever been right.

Because the tooth fairy only comes for kids’ teeth, not interested in the adult stuff. Also, what makes everyone so sure the digging doesn’t happen?

The my dad is hotter than yours is surely going on - that’s what it’s all about. It’s not some serious statistics, it’s meant as objectification. Not everything has to be present in the picture.

I do think people without direct experience are unable to understand the depth or the totalitarian evil. It’s just too terrifying to accept that one can be trully powerless, that any kind of resistance can lead not just to the destruction of themselves, but also their families, that the degree of bullying and control can be so high and the regard for human life so low.

It’s too scary, so normal human minds just refuse it as a possibility and try to imagine more optimistic scenarios.

It’s healthy not to lose hope, but it’s also not good to underestimate the evil and unfair to look down on the people facing it.

Well, I see objectification as looking at the surface of someone and evaluating how beneficial they could be to me, just like I would with goods in a shop - without acknowledging it’s not goods for me to chose from, it’s a person with as much agency as me and with rights, feelings and opinions that matter as much as mine.

And that’s what’s happening here.

It doesn’t really matter whether the evaluated person feels complimented or not. It would be slightly better (still kind of toxic though) if the evaluated participants agreed to participate beforehand.