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Sarah Ibarruri

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15. Here's the problem - if we're excessively cautious and careful, we will seem to be agreeing with
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 11:06 AM
Mar 2012

those who believe that women are by nature imperfect and must re-do themselves to look like Barbies, or they will be rejected.

There's too much of a force to contend with out there which dictates that women need plastic surgery, that women need makeup, that an attractive body is an anorexic one with 36DDD implants, that women need to shut up about their opinions, that women need to look like the attractive 16 year old photoshopped models modeling clothes for women in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. This is what young teens grow up with, and if we are too cautious, and make no waves, there will be zero change.

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