If we want to push back against the rising demands of beauty, we should start by abstaining from body shame
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If we want to push back against the rising demands of beauty, we should start by abstaining from body shame

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“Just say no!” Supposedly this is the way to stop all manner of bad things — drugs, drink, sex, even beauty practices. That a few women — and its nearly always women — stop body-work will do anything to slow the rising demands of beauty is not at all obvious. There are no systematic arguments for why individual resistance, abstinence, rejecting beauty will work — or at least, if there are, I haven’t found them. Resistance to beauty is bound up with the rise of the women’s liberation movement in the 1960s and 70s, and its general rejection of patriarchy. The shame and blame game When the women’s liberation movement was in full swing, the call to abstinence had some prospect of success.

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