On Beauty: White Hot, White Noise, And Are Beauty Standards Really Better Now?

Rosalyn Morris
7 min readMay 12, 2022
Photo by Jessica Felicio on Unsplash

So, I recently watched the Netflix documentary, White Hot. It’s about mall retail chain, Abercrombie & Fitch, and it’s deplorable hiring practices back in the early 2000’s to around 2013.

In the end, the store had to atone for its hiring practices, of only hiring the young, white, and attractive, and the provocative images it used…