Ana Kasparian teaching a lesson on how to handle trolls. Ana Kasparian, Mark Thompson, and Lauren Silvan discuss a recent makeup removal app and trolls on The Young Turks. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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“In the tradition of those Snapchat filters that give your skin an added glow and FaceApp, the less said about which the better, comes MakeApp, an app that uses artificial intelligence to show you what people—you, your friends, celebrities, anyone—look like without makeup. There are of course plenty of apps that stack various filters in order to self-beautify, and MakeApp offers the option of adding makeup to a face, too. But its underlying purpose seems to be to make sure that people—ahem, women—can’t get away with using makeup to fool people into thinking they’re hotter than they actually are. Why not expose the dastardly tricks these harpies are using to disguise themselves? Makeup: It’s basically witchcraft.
Women, understandably, have not taken kindly to this concept: Select All called the app “laughable and problematic,” PopSugar described it as “sexist,” and Refinery29 said it “wants to destroy your self-esteem.”*
Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Mark Thompson, Lauren Silvan
Cast: Ana Kasparian, Mark Thompson, Lauren Silvan
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