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Let girls live as they are: Kids
The suffocating beauty duty that parents put on girls’ shoulders
Women are trained since their childhood to care about their physical appearance first. To me, diamonds are a girl’s best friend, only if that “girl” is a teenager or an immature person, who stayed a teenager, even when biologically has moved forward. And if so, the responsibility is hers.
But, we can’t overlook the fact that adults have planted a beauty obsession in her path during her first years in life.
Little girls have beauty reminders around them all the time. “Oh! You‘re so pretty!”, “Your dress is fabulous!”, “What a princess you are!”, “Oh, you and your pink nails!”, “Where did you find these beautiful earrings?”, “These shoes are fantastic, girl”! And even worse: “Let me take a picture of you and post it on Facebook”!
Why do we push females to image-mania?
It’s common fact that trade’s survival depends a lot on women. Not only when it comes to products, but services as well. Especially services that promise to keep her young, to renew her skin, to lift her breasts and eyelashes, to bit up cellulite, to refresh every little inch of her body. She feeds the system with money and the system feeds her with the illusion of eternal youth.
