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Tag: beauty
The Pink Tax and Beauty Secrets
There is now a $20 price difference between what I paid for a product I bought 3 months ago, and now. Same brand, same formula, same package, and same sellers. It’s $20 more now because I bought it and was stupid enough to let others know which one I bought. I am thinking that there…
Anjan Chatterjee talks about the neurology of creativity.
Have you ever had the experience of being so absorbed by a painting or a piece of music,” writes Anjan Chatterjee in his 2013 book The Aesthetic Brain, “that you lose all sense of space and time? These magical moments … are ironically deeply subjective. The problem, of course, is that science demands some objectivity.”…
Facial Justice, a Novel About Postmodernist Hatred of Beauty
The first chapter contains the scene of two female friends meeting. The prettier of the two has been reported to the authorities for her good looks, and faces cumpulsory plastic surgery to level her down to the average standard. “It was my lashes they mostly picked on, for being too long and curly. My fault,…
Am I Ugly?
Many young girls on the internet are asking this question lately. As I’ve said many times, the only truly ugly woman is one who has lost her womanhood. This can be done the Smigel way by worrying about the wrong thing and neglect, or the Darth Vader way of active hatred leading to the voluntary…
Who Will Revere the Black Woman?” (September 1966) | Abbey Lincoln
As time progresses, I’ve learned that this description of my mothers, sisters, and partners in crime is used as the basis and excuse for the further shoving, by the Black man, of his own head into the sand of oblivion. Hence, the black mother, housewife, and all-round girl Thursday is called upon to suffer both…