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Their belief is accurate: young people no longer accept flawed partners the way older generations did.

They don't even accept flawed celebrities or flawed relatives.

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Being flawed is not same as not being maxed-out.

While not accepting flaws (serious ones) is a good thing, the problem is that people poisoned by social media do not accept non-maxed-out people. Even aspiration and effort to improve is not enough, one has to be already in the perfect state.

Though maybe you have meant that, that even small imperfections are not acceptable anymore.


I wonder how much of this is due to the likes of Instagram, where everybody presents a throughout curated, filtered version of themselves, setting unrealistic expectations as a baseline everywhere.



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