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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anti aging is about looking 25, not 17.[/quote]

This. Plus at 48 no matter what I do, I will never ever look even 30 much less like a child.

So dumb. I really hate when other women create these dumb posts to tell us what we should be doing with our bodies. Go gray, never shave, be flabby. WHO CARES. I'll do whatever I damn well please with my body. I dont have to justify it to anyone. [/quote]

It's person by person.

I do think that at the celebrity/influencer level, it sometimes is about looking like a teenager, not just a youthful adult woman. Which when you think about it, makes sense. The mostly men who have been making decisions in Hollywood about what movies to make and who is in those movies include a LOT of gross perverts. Like if that is not abundantly clear by now, you are not well informed. So when a 30-something or 40-something actress is pumping her face with filler and botox and doing whatever it takes to whittle her waist down as small as it will go, I do sometimes think this is about trying to turn herself into the child that those perverts prefer.

And then the trends for the rest of us are influenced by the people making those decisions. Granted, in my life there are no decision makers deciding how much money I make based on how much I look like a teenage girl. Thank god. But it is part of the culture, and if I consume a lot of social media, for instance, I will find myself wondering about certain procedures and interventions that never would have occurred to me before, and it's likely those ideas were pushed by the same machine that tells a 32 year old actress she's over the hill unless she can smooth everything out to look a little less legal.

So I agree you don't have to justify anything to anyone. But pretending your choices and preferences exist in a vacuum, and that you are not influenced by the decisions and preferences of very powerful people who we know prefer extremely young, teenaged bodies and appearances is just ignorant. We're all connect. I am not going to judge you for whatever you do to look how you want to look, but I'm also not going to pretend like it has nothing at all to do with these very messed up ideas about youth and beauty and sexuality that permeate our society. I know my own preferences are guided by it too. We're all part of it.[/quote]

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