legitimate question - do people really look at how adolescent girls are incredibly prone to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self esteem problems and self mutilation, how girls report they first thought about their weight before they were 10 years old, and think that it just comes out of nowhere ? people really think it has no connection to how society treats our girls ? to how, from the time they can comprehend visual information, they’re processing subliminal messages that says they are nothing more than their bodies, than their beauty, than their potential sex appeal ? to how the culture of social media is constantly saying “look like this youtube beauty guru, look like this kardashian, look like this instagram model” and then say “no, girls just dress this way because they want to. girls just do their makeup this way because they want to. girls just act this way because they want to.” why do they want to ? why do you have 13 year olds playing dress up as adult women, trying to prove to the world that they’re beautiful and fit into this objectified, hypersexualized box ? im begging you to use your brain for a goddamned minute and critically think about why teenage girls are doing this to themselves. because you have to be so incredibly naive and out of touch with reality to think it’s a purely autonomous choice that isn’t influenced by any outside factors whatsoever.
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