SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE WHO STILL TRIES TO GET BACK INTO THE SWING OF THINGS AFTER DEPRESSION HIT THEM HARD. THERE ISN’T ENOUGH RECOGNITION FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THAT THEY’RE GOING TO LOSE INTEREST AND MOTIVATION AGAIN BUT PUSH THEMSELVES TO DO STUFF ANYWAYS. YOU ARE FIGHTING A DAILY BATTLE WITH YOUR OWN THOUGHTS AND YOU’RE STILL COMING OUT ON TOP, YOU’RE ALL BRAVE AS FUCK
It’s important to remember that women invest so much in their appearance to obtain lots of things they are otherwise denied. The idea that women are shallow, vain or naturally more concerned with appearance is a lie.
That being said, beauty doesn’t grant you power. It’s not real power if men are the ones who confer upon you status or advantages for your beauty. It’s not real power when someone says, “if you don’t do what I want, I will make your life demonstrably more difficult.”
I would argue that it’s recognition that beauty grants women, but this recognition becomes very important when the alternative is being invisible or treated as insignificant. Basically, many of the so-called “benefits” of being a women (i.e. men doing or buying things for you or giving you positive attention) only come with being conventionally attractive.
But it’s important to remember that being beautiful doesn’t grant you any real power in any meaningful sense of the word. That’s a false promise.
i feel like we’re all just kind of reblogging it in a circle and looking at each other uneasily like, waiting for someone to finally give in and yell it out in the reply chain
