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    I don’t want to come over all pearl-clutchy on this, but it seems embarrassingly obvious to point out that women are encouraged, from a very young age, to derive their sense of self-worth solely from other people’s appreciation of their bodies. Little girls are praised for being pretty and docile rather than for being smart, funny, curious or resourceful. As they grow up, they learn from culture — and from peers who’ve also absorbed that culture — that people like girls more if they care for their bodies in certain ways.
    – Kate Langbroek, Dave Hughes, bikinis and body image issues | Crikey

    Source: crikey.com.au

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    You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.
    – http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html (via fuckyeahfeminists)

    (via sleepydumpling)

    Source: fuckyeahfeminists