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Mary-Katherine Fleming's avatar

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ I fuckin hate this industry so hard.

I don’t want to dress 10 years younger.

I don’t want to look ten years younger.

I love my furry crotch.

Burn it all down.

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Jessica DeFino's avatar

Actual lol @ “I love my furry crotch.” Yes!!

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Mary-Katherine Fleming's avatar

If a woman wants to shave it- cool! You do you!

If a man brags about preferring it, I will always pounce on that. I am a CSA advocate and have much to say regarding the sexualization and fetishizing prepubescent bodies. This isn’t always the case, consciously or subconsciously, but the normalization of it has silenced an important conversation and opportunity for (self-)reflection regarding the (male) gaze.

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Lili's avatar

Omg Jessica, you tricked us! Am I the only one who was like "Wow, Jessica is endorsing some skincare products, I can't wait to see!!" It really goes to show, even though I think I'm pretty much immune to this stuff, I'm not ...

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Jessica DeFino's avatar

Lollll right? I still click too, the conditioning runs deep!

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Whitney McKnight's avatar

Wait, but what about all the scientific studies so many products use to, um, verify their claims?

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Jessica DeFino's avatar

That's in the next newsletter, actually!!

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Soumïa Maldji's avatar

I clicked on it just to see why you’d need 17 products in the first place? 😅

What I hate most about these articles is that they always rave about products they’ve been using for less than a week. Show me a routine that’s been tested over a decade by 1459 women, with results compared to a control group. THEN I’ll be impressed.

Also, all headlines that contain a variation of “I’m an editor and that’s what I swear by” are such a trigger for me. Who cares? Just... who cares?

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Suzanne's avatar

Ha! Subject lines that ACTUALLY WORK! You got me Jessica!🤣🥰

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Jessica DeFino's avatar

Haha old habits die hard!

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Joanne's avatar

Not going to lie: I still click on those articles with baited breath and a glimmer of hope in my heart even though I know better. When my partner found out I was using tretinoin for anti-aging ,he said, “Why? What for? That sh*t doesn’t work! All that sh*t is a bunch of sh*t!”.

Many sh*ts were given that day.

Thank you, Jess for what you do!

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Monica Dee's avatar

Dammit, foiled again!!

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Beth Loughney's avatar

I click on them just to laugh at how much people are willing to pay for things that either do nothing or are actively harmful.

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AprilLHB's avatar

I love this post.

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