![]() ![]() All things lead you somewhere, teach you something in the end, and all lives are valid.īut think about what you could do, with your energies, if they weren’t spent in service of something that never gives you anything back? Beauty – the closer you get, the further away it seems, and the harsher it criticizes you. Think about how many hours are spent in the pursuit of beauty? I don’t believe a life can actually be wasted. ![]() I’m certainly not the first person to point this out, but this obsession with dieting, with restriction – reframing depletion and literal physical weakness and exhaustion as if it’s a virtuous moral position – this obsession only keeps you weak, and insecure, and all it seems to do is rob you of energy so you can’t question it anymore. They had to stay home and take care of the women. The whole foot-binding thing in China? I heard once that the idea was targeted – it was introduced by the new ruling class specifically to cripple the women so that the men would not be able to unite and rebel. Sure enough, there was this little discussion about fashion and harm, and it only brushed the surface. There was a brief report on TV the other day about a woman who lost feeling in her legs and may have suffered some degree of nerve damage because of her too-tight skinny jeans. All cultures I can think of have some history of making people – women especially – suffer for fashion. ![]()
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