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[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well that's good to know. I was feeling particularly desolate over all this today. Seems like some old-school "assertiveness training" would do these girls & young women wonders.

But the focus on changing the appearance of one's own body is just a new brand form of the looksism that has so long been a terrible drain on women's psychic energies and time. Used to be girls & women tried to escape having obviously female bodies by starving, purging, excessively exercising etc in hopes of becoming super skinny - maybe so skinny as to be invisible or slip through a crack in the pavement and be swallowed up the earth, never to be seen again. Now girls and women are trying to escape their female bodies by taking cross-sex hormones sure to be ruinous to their health and getting mutilating surgeries in hopes of fooling themselves and others into thinking they're men. It's absurd, but not in a funny way.