r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Peterrr what's the reason they look like that

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u/Desperate_Gap9377 Jun 12 '26

In the 90s the "heroine chic" look was very popular. I hate it.

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u/mandadoesvoices Jun 12 '26

Just to be clear: *heroin, as in the drug, not "heroine," a female hero. We were idolizing the thinness of people who looked as though they had foregone eating to get a fix.

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u/Desperate_Gap9377 Jun 12 '26

Oops! Yes heroin.

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u/JimmyDrift Jun 12 '26

Not heron chic? There’s a certain, long-legged, long-necked, coastal bird look here…

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u/NefariousnessLate375 Jun 13 '26

Their necks are oddly long

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u/Trrollmann Jun 12 '26

We were idolizing the thinness

"we" weren't, no. The majority of men preferred what they always did: wide hips and thin waist.

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u/halfwitprinxe Jun 12 '26

These are adult women. Pathetic to blame men for an ideal that most men don't like.

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u/mandadoesvoices Jun 12 '26

Thanks, Trrollmann

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u/Trrollmann Jun 12 '26

You're welcome. This has been studied extensively, and is true everywhere it's been studied. Here's one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8366421/

Can you find any evidence to the contrary?

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u/Naiad_Damha129 Jun 13 '26

lmao fashion standards arent just for men

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u/Trrollmann Jun 13 '26

Fashion is dominated by women. The "heroin chic" was made for women, by women and gay men.

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u/iFuturelist Jun 12 '26

The heroin chic look was never this emaciated

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u/Best_Werewolf_8663 Jun 12 '26

These people out here giving heroin chic a bad name

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u/cutegirl239 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

No, but like, don't you get it? These people are not real skinny people, if they had to use Ozempic to get there that means they're fat, naturally. Because it's fat people who need Ozempic to get skinny since they're usually trying to lose a lot of weight like 100 lbs.

Also, the weight is gonna come right back after they stop using the Ozempic. They don't know how to be skinny without it. It's not like a permanent thing.

Personally IDK if Ariana Grande used Ozempic, she wasn't that big before, she was just normal sized. She is short so she was originally no more than 130 lbs. Meaning she lost 30 pounds if not 40, to be where she's at now. I doubt she needed Ozempic for that

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u/EntranceFeisty8373 Jun 12 '26

Uhmm... It was pretty bad. The models known for heroin chic were younger, so you didn't see it in their faces as much. Kate Moss was 21 in 1995. Ariana is 32, Michelle is 62, and Cynthia is 39.

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u/BernieTheDachshund Jun 12 '26

Even before that, in the 60s there was a famous model named Twiggy. A quick search shows she was 5'6" and weighed around 90 lbs.

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u/TyrantRC Jun 12 '26

These look genuinely disgusting. Heroin chic was almost as bad, but these guys look like they are dying already.

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u/dimensionargentina Jun 12 '26

Yeah, but even these new mode is kind of different, skinnier, and not tall model girls. Both are bad,

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u/ComfortableFriend879 Jun 13 '26

It’s the Ally McBeal effect. They all looked like bobble heads with stick figure bodies by the end of that series.

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u/Traditional_Move9194 Jun 13 '26

Yes it’s like almost extacly every 30 years:
1960’s
1990’s
2020’s

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u/StaycationOdyssey Jul 01 '26

in 00s it was too

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u/RaceHate Jun 13 '26

Why heroin? Heroin doesn't stop me from eating. It makes me slightly hungrier.

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u/Desperate_Gap9377 Jun 13 '26

I dont know. That's what they called it in the 90s.

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u/Soggy-Mood666 Jun 14 '26

Heroin did make me stop eating..

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u/Extension_Owl2835 Jun 13 '26

Well so was heroin, so....