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[fashiondork.livejournal.com]

The surgery and photo manipulation (along with hair removal, I know some people disagree and I can see shaving some but removing all of it is wierd to me...) literally makes women look prepubesent. I'm too tired to analyze that right now, but I'm sure it means something that we are trying to make our women look like children, and that that is what is considered sexy...

[fushigi-na-chou.livejournal.com]

Infantalization of women is a common practice in many societies. It goes hand in hand with the idea that women are property rather than self-determining individuals, and strips away from them all of the power of adulthood. It's just one more step that allows men, and penis owning individuals, to assume the authority in society. "These are only women, and furthermore, they are women who look like children and must be treated thus, and beyond that, women who will strive to fit into whatever we say is the ideal for beauty, and therefore worth."

Now, am I saying this is a conscious effort on anyone's part? By no means. I don't blame men, either individually or as a group, or even women for that matter. I blame our society for allowing it to happen, and I blame those who feel opposed to it for not speaking up and being willing to educate those who are either indifferent or for it, so that they may make a more educated decision about their stance. For some, it may not be important, and they live in a "live and let live" world, but I have a problem when that attitude makes room for others to feel less than what they are and place their worth and value in another's standards. /rant