Actress Rashida Jones has called on young women to “stop acting like whores” and quit posting sexy selfies on the Internet.
The Cuban Fury star recently launched an #elegantselfie hashtag to encourage women to take more tasteful pictures for their social media accounts and in an interview with Time Magazine, shared her fears about the hypersexualization of pop culture and girls.
“People were sharing that their teenage daughters, every picture they take is like this sultry, mouth-open picture – and we were exploring the idea of an “elegant selfie”, where it’s not sexual as a top-note, where it’s got other flavors to it, you know? You could smile!”
She also expressed her relief that such a culture was not so prominent when she was growing up, as she “definitely never even attempted to be sexy”.
“I don’t know if I would have done that [gotten to know myself or developed a sense of humour], because there’s actually a correlation between spending time worrying about what you look like and how you could be appealing to guys and not developing other parts of yourself. I just think about it through my own personal experience and want better for younger girls,” she said.
“I think it’s a generational thing. I think the impetus for me was I have a 21-year-old sister – and she’s a really good girl, she’s a smart, beautiful, soulful, funny girl – and I think just seeing it through the eyes of somebody I love who’s younger than me. There is this kind of blanket pressure to be a certain way, to be sexy in a certain way, to get the attention of men and also other women.”
