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niyad

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22. it is dificult for women to accept themselves for who they are when we have entire industries

Reply to Hulk (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 11:55 AM

Jul 2015

and culture devoted to telling them just the opposite. they aren't pretty enough, smooth enough, thin enough, etc,., etc. whole magazines devoted to telling them if they wear the right (expensive) clothes, the right (expensive) makeup, the right (expensive) perfume, the right (expensive) shoes, use the right (expensive cleansers), the right (expensive) cleaning agents, etc. etc. etc.

don't blame the women when the culture tells them 24/7 that they are NOT okay as they are.

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comments... "You look disgusting... [View all] 1monster Jul 2015 OP

Thanks - what a great reminder that beauty has VERY LITTLE to do jonno99 Jul 2015 #1

NEVER happen to a man NEVER randys1 Jul 2015 #2

WRONG ! Pete Townsend recalls his father looking at him, Hoppy Jul 2015 #6

LOL Would trade my very rugged good looks to be him, I think...yep randys1 Jul 2015 #7

Once, when I was 13, a client told my father that I looked like him demwing Jul 2015 #19

It happened to me when I was a boy, Qutzupalotl Jul 2015 #17

"How you look is the most important thing about you" said no Dad to his teenage son, ever. TygrBright Jul 2015 #3

You've never met my father demwing Jul 2015 #20

The Internet is full of trolls. onehandle Jul 2015 #4

Obviously, the Internet is way beyond so many nasty folks, trolls is a name I don't use, why? drynberg Jul 2015 #5

You are young. Should look up a guy named Martin Luther King Jr. While in jail for, essentially, jtuck004 Jul 2015 #8

+1 jonno99 Jul 2015 #9

Just FYI: I am near sixty (OMG! How did THAT happen?!) I just posted this because I thought 1monster Jul 2015 #12

I should have been more clear. My comment was to her, and anyone who thinks what jtuck004 Jul 2015 #13

That message was the essense of EST training, back in the '70's. Hoppy Jul 2015 #21

My first wife wore very little make up.... Hulk Jul 2015 #10

Makeup is hell on the skin... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #14

Try Vegas. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2015 #15

It's a dry heat... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #16

it is dificult for women to accept themselves for who they are when we have entire industries niyad Jul 2015 #22

Beautiful and Brave Woman Speaking Truth To Those Who Misuse Power! Dont call me Shirley Jul 2015 #11

very powerful. thanks. n/t wildbilln864 Jul 2015 #18

Makeup costs a shitload of money too. azmom Jul 2015 #23