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‘Something similar is going on today with a certain popular beauty look, which we might label “Instagram model.” The look evokes both nakedness and airbrushing and is made possible by technology. A lot of the work formerly performed by makeup has been redirected into products and procedures—eyelash extensions, micro-current facials, injections of all kinds—leading to, and prompted by, an aesthetic of militant naturalness surrounded by an unambiguous aura of money and work. It’s a regime posing as a regimen. “Rules of taste enforce structures of power,” Sontag wrote. The beauty industry runs on its ability to redefine “natural” at increasingly higher prices.’

I know we’re supposed to accept peoples decisions about their bodies and lives or whatever but some of y’all are having kids in your early twenties and it’s sad that you’re wasting your youth on raising a child when you haven’t had the privilege of fully experiencing your independency in an age where you should be exploring the world and yourself without the hindrance of taking care of another human being and i know some people are gonna bring up their pregnant cousin or their sister who had a child at 21 but you’re not gonna try and convince me that they’re truly happy

op is t*rf. stop reblogging this. it’s bait.