TikTok’s revolt against ‘legging legs’ gives reason for hope

This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on [Bloomberg]( This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership. [Gen Z’s ‘Legging Legs’ Trend Got the TikTok Backlash It Deserved]( — Jessica Karl “No, you’re doing it wrong. Your feet need to touch each other.” That was what my friend told me in the high school bathroom. It was 2013, and we were staring at ourselves in the mirror, trying to discern whether we had it — it being the tiny sliver of air between the legs that every insecure girl yearned for: [a thigh gap](. All around the world, millions of girls my age were engaged in a similar toxic exercise. They aspired to be a model-thin “It Girl,” just like Cara Delevingne. By now, we all know what a poisonous trend this was. But a decade later, Gen Z and Gen Alpha are at risk of reincarnating it. On TikTok, a number of tweens in the “[Sephora generation](” have recently made [videos]( promoting “[legging legs](,” which is exactly as vile as it sounds: thin legs being the only ones that “look good” in leggings. There’s even a viral soundbite that goes with it: “Nothing in my life is fair,” Paris Geller [says]( wistfully in Gilmore Girls. The [text]( on one video reads: “When you see a girl with perfect legging legs.” Have we not learned our lesson? Read the [whole thing](. [Musk Loses $51 Billion, But There’s a Lot More at Stake]( — Liam Denning [Wind Power Is Starting to Learn Big Oil’s Dirty Little Secret]( — David Fickling [Elon Musk Is Overpaid]( — Matt Levine [Trump’s Defamation Case Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving]( — Timothy L. O’Brien [How the US Can Strike Back at Iran]( — James Stavridis [The World Is Transitioning to American Oil From Saudi Crude]( — Javier Blas [Can Taylor Swift Save Humanity From AI’s Dark Side?]( — Parmy Olson [Trump, GOP Governors’ Border Threats Smack of Sedition]( — Patricia Lopez [The Great Lithium Race Could Go Horribly Wrong]( — Bloomberg’s editorial board More From Bloomberg Opinion Here’s what we’ve been listening to and watching this week. - [Crash Course: The Latino Community Won’t Be Ignored in 2024]( with Timothy L. O’Brien - [Mark Zuckerberg]( made a massive error in judgment. - [Elon Musk](’s new Neuralink chip is a wake-up call. Follow Us Like getting this newsletter? [Subscribe to Bloomberg.com]( for unlimited access to trusted, data-driven journalism and subscriber-only insights. Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can’t find anywhere else. [Learn more](. Want to sponsor this newsletter? [Get in touch here](. You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Opinion Today newsletter. If a friend forwarded you this message, [sign up here]( to get it in your inbox. [Unsubscribe]( [Bloomberg.com]( [Contact Us]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 [Ads Powered By Liveintent]( [Ad Choices](