Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I have had it with television ads trying to make everyone insecure in their bodies.  To hell with that bullshit. You don't need to look ten years younger. You don't need to look like a bodybuilder. You don't need to fry your hair to give it a texture it doesn't naturally have. You don't need to selectively remove hair from your body in order to be attractive. You don't need to pluck, tease, squeeze, lift and separate, binge and purge, weigh, measure, or scrutinize yourself in order to be a worthwhile human being.

So, say, once a week, get up and do this:

Shower if you feel like it. Brush your teeth. Brush your hair.
And then stop.
Look in the mirror and say: I am a perfectly normal and attractive human being.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe it because of all the lies the beauty industry has told you. Just do it.

Because the world has too many other problems for millions of us to spend hours every day worrying about living up to a cultural beauty standard that can't be achieved without photoshop anyway.
You're not a digitally altered photograph.
You're a human being. Never, ever be ashamed of that.
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