5. Ever been told…?
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Short make you think quotes, thank you for sharing.🙏😊
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glad you enjoyed 🙂
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Who’s to say someone’s unattractive or not?
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that’s true — yet I wanted to address the implication that girls & women are only of value if they’re somehow good looking, whereas this isn’t so for men…
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I think belief of this was certainly the case until just a few years ago but I rarely come across it anymore. I hope it’s dying out.
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No one has said that to me but I do not find it hard to believe people do say or think this. i hope we are moving on to a more open minded era now.
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ah, Anne, we can always hope…
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I’ve never been told that, but I have seen the tragic results of the attitude. Outgoing women and girls with great talent for mathematics, logic, acting, or what have you being passed over for less talented women seen as attractive or beautiful. It’s a cruel world for the less attractive among us. As evidence, the obscene profits of cosmetic companies promising brighter eyes, plumper lips, hiding eye circles, thicker more manageable hair, ad nauseum.
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exactly, Barbara — even if we’re not told it in those exact words, we still understand & internalize the message…
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But women should put their foot down instead of playing along. They are being manipulated and don’t see it, and if there is one woman, who refuses to be manipulated, the sisters are the first to pounce on her … 😉
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Stella, not all women (nor all men) are unsupportive (& worse) however I have a problem with media that implies we’re automatically all such great ‘sisters’ to each other — while I’m complaining, I also have prob with media’s assumption that all mothers are perfect…
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I’ve never been told, but I’ve observed in life that physical beauty can be both a blessing and a curse.
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true, Rosaliene — anything we hold too tightly can work against us
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