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But you’re so busy! So much is going on in your life in a world actively falling apart! I get it. But please find a way. Otherwise fun, awe, small joys, rest, feeling nicely grounded, and the stuff that makes life enjoyable, or at least more tolerable and balanced and worth living for, will have a hard time finding you.

Lots of small joys soon add up.

cats are the guardians of the underworld.

cats are the guardians of the underworld.

THE MUMMY (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

Way, way too many people, many of whom are women who genuinely consider themselves feminists: “Well, actually, this is bad representation because it suggests that women need to be like men to be strong. It would be better if she were more stereotypically feminine. Female characters wearing combat boots or practical clothing to a fight just sends the message that women wearing high heels and ballgowns are not dressed for rigorous athletic feats. It’s actually more empowering to show that women can have full faces of perfect makeup and be sexy and feminine at all times and prioritize their appearance, even when they’re hacking their way through aliens 24/7.”

Not shaving. Not wearing makeup. Choosing clothes and shoes based primarily on comfort and/or practicality. Not excessively styling hair, and/or having a low-effort (short) haircut. These are all neutral actions or inaction. They are easier and often healthier for a person than the traditionally feminine alternatives. Think about whose agenda you’re serving when you posit that just existing in your natural body is “masculine” and one must put in significant conscious effort each day to be sufficiently “feminine.” Think about whose agenda you’re serving when you insist that female representation in media must always be high-effort feminine.

Mental health problems, especially among youth, have exploded together with major expansions in mental health awareness efforts. The theory of concept creep, or when harm-related concepts broaden their meanings over time, describes this phenomenon but is agnostic about the mechanisms behind the harms. We suggest that this lack of clarity is due to a fragmented literature with proposed mechanisms spread across adjacent fields. Across theories and explanatory frameworks of concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling, we identify three common mechanisms through which mental health awareness may unintentionally cause harm. These include (a) lowering the threshold for what counts as a mental disorder, (b) increasing attention to internal states and pathologizing ambiguous experiences, and (c) reinforcing negative expectations and identities over time. We describe these shared mechanisms, propose a path forward for research priorities, broaden the evidence for harms from mental health awareness, and offer options for effective multifaceted interventions to reduce them

theres a lot of variation in women's bodies, just like with men's. we arent all cut from the same cloth so to speak. thats important to take into account too

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