Molly
@mollyjbarth
Molly
@mollyjbarth
Now if you’re not “hot,” you are expected to work on it until you are.
The fact that it is hard to do everything: It’s hard to be in a relationship, it’s hard not to be in one. It’s hard to have to perform at a job you love and are emotionally invested in, it’s hard not to be living your dreams by a certain age. Everything is hard; it’s just
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“ I have watched beauty trends shift dramatically over the past decade, from the ultra-thin models of the early 2000s to the Instagram-influenced emphasis on curves and cosmetic enhancement. These changes do not happen in a vacuum. They reflect broader social conversations about feminism, body positivity, racial representation, and economic
... See moreyou have aging (inevitable) and the shifting in beauty trends (also inevitable). so if one doesn’t get you, the other surely will.
Girls may have abundant riches in the form of bodily capital, but their capacity to spend it is limited by gendered rules of sexual conduct.
Because in this rarefied world there is an unspoken but widely understood logic: girls are valuable; women are not.