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[–]Irascible-harpy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was thinking something similar yesterday. I remember myself and my peers being vain in our teens, but I was in the grocery store and I saw these girls dressed up and dolled up like they were getting ready for some e-girl photoshoots. I'm reaching my later twenties, still so young, and yet, I'm starting to feel outside the visible spectrum when it comes to modern beauty standards. How much are these kids gonna struggle when they're even more isolated from peers, even more inundated with falsity and vanity..? This fixation with self image has become completely out of control, and I imagine that kids growing up with TikTok and Instagram are going to struggle far more than we did.