By glamorizing the Armed Forces in this theater, the Department of Defense hopes to bolster its ranks in the military theater, while boosting moral for those already enlisted.
Mainstream media surrounding mental illness that glamorizes depression and anxiety can send the message that these conditions are desirable or even fashionable.
Platforms like Instagram and TikTok are rife with posts that glamorize sadness, often through beautifully edited videos or aesthetically pleasing photos paired with melancholic quotes.
They say that they don't glamorize violence, but then again, in their videos with their guns and, you know, the fancy cars and the gold chains, I mean, it's like one leads to another leads to another.
I do not want to glamorize my behavior, my avoidance behaviors, but I do want to normalize them for you, because I say, that's what one of the important things the podcast serves.
But we've sort of, and I was guilty of this, sort of fetishized and glamorized these stories when they were told from the mouths of people who were slightly exceptional.
Social media, a woman veterinarian in Tehran told the Financial Times, also glamorizes the single life by showing how unmarried people live carefree and successful lives.