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I often think about Glennon Doyle’s comment on how men (for the most part)  are just allowed to HAVE A FACE while women are told there are 40 things we have to do to make our faces acceptable. Maddening.

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It's so true

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This!! Gos forbid I just have a face.

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Every time I would show up at my kids primary school sans any make up- ‘you look tired. You okay?’

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Ugh rude!

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This is spot-on. I am always so perplexed by these trend round-ups published by Vogue and elsewhere. I looked at their "hairstyles to watch for in 2023" post or whatever it was and it was just a list of 9 common hairstyles. "Long hair!" "Bobs!" Like, thanks, guys -- you hacked it.

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LOL omg yes

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I can totally see us discovering aliens and then saying, "my god- their skin is soooo good". Brava writing as always.... and the more I read your work the more I look at current trends and lol. Our bodies and faces are not trends!!!

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Holy shit you're so right. That's how they're gonna get us haha

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obsessed with this sentence: "The look marks a cultural shift from self-objectification (emulating inanimate foodstuffs) to self-mechanisation (emulating humanoid machinery)."

My social media echo chamber sometimes convinces me that the girlboss productivity era is over and it's not, it's simply shape shifting! brilliant as always, thank you!!

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shape-shifting is the perfect way to put it! it's all about "pretty productivity" now

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Uuugg can’t stand this enough. Oh what a world we are becoming so inhuman like! 🥲😠😭

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coming back to this article because I saw this tiktok on how a female NASA engineer made a contraption that... custom mixes your perfect foundation shade 🫤 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWgBwnu/

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oh my god i'm depressed

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