October 2010
“Consumerism is the new patriarchy. The beauty industry is the beast. Advertising constrains the horizon of female aspirations, gendering their dreams before they’re hatched. Girls, even when they are still a fetus in the womb, are the target of an unrelenting image assault. Pretty little girls is what this society wants and it gets it through a flood of erotically charged marketing that propagandizes half the population, and their parents, to sexualize femininity at an early age. Of course, boys get the message too. But their assigned role is as the aggressor party. Girls, on the other hand, are told that weak and vulnerable is sexy.”
—Micah White (via chasingseafoam)
I don't trust people who say they don't have any 90s/00s teen queen/boy band music in their music collection
“I feel so out of touch with internet fashion lately. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like everything is so excessive and… like the mall. I’d really like to get back to the basics of dressing. And what attracted me to personal style and fashion in the first place. It doesn’t have to be minimal. It could just be as simple as choosing a dress with a jacket. But the idea that you aren’t trying to be anybody else except yourself. And don’t be afraid to be more interesting than the clothes you wear or the parties you go to. After all, it’s about telling a story.”
—luluandyourmom.com (via xtinathegreat)
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