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Esther Stanway-Williams's avatar

Excellent. It’s true, we don’t even realise it’s happening when we’re young…and so the brain-washing begins 😢

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Jessica Mills's avatar

It really is shocking when you reflect on your younger years and see how embedded into your development it is🫣Hopefully we can flip the script with future generations!!

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Esther Stanway-Williams's avatar

Yep…my daughter does not swallow this crap! 💪

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Reyah KatS's avatar

The social media nowadays makes the standard of how a women should be, should have or should have not. SAD but that is the norms nowadays, which causes anxiety and depression for many.

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Rea de Miranda's avatar

The media creates an unattainable image of the female body. Then they wonder why girls suffer through mental issues.

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Jessica Mills's avatar

100%! And it starts so young as well😅

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Rea de Miranda's avatar

Exactly!

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Alien_Relay 3.0's avatar

Stop apologizing, you are not a passive observer in this world, but a dynamic actor. I think women need to remember this, its something that boomer and Xer femenist women practiced.

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trE L. Loadholt's avatar

This!!! All of this is exactly what so many of us need to read right now:

"I exist right now. In soft light and bad moods and bloated mornings and dresses I don’t owe to anyone’s aesthetic. I will not apologise for being in process. I will not edit myself into someone’s fantasy of who I could become if I just hated myself a little harder."

And you wrote it in a way that it can be digested and understood. I hope the people in the back are listening.

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Laura's avatar

Well said,thank you.

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Dana Walker Inskeep's avatar

Beautifully written. I’m thrilled that you’ve figured this out at such a young age. Most of us don’t even start to realize the propaganda we’ve fallen victim to until our 50s.

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