Airline Uniforms: professional or passé? While many industries are retiring dress codes or uniforms that force their female employees to conform to patriarchal beauty standards, a glaringly obvious exception can be found in airline uniforms for their flight attendants. In the event of a water landing, are you hoping your flight attendant wears heels with
Don't communicate “preferences” about your partner’s body: The Internet’s Least Favorite Take I have gone viral and negative-viral several times each. Whenever I’ve gone “neg viral,” my comment section and DM’s are filled with men responding to my defense of the female body with how porn-like images are “theirs and every other man’s preference, so good luck being single!
Ruby Franke and Self-voyeurism Self-objectification and self-voyeurism is the lifeblood of the Insecurity Industry. Advertisements and magazines train women to evaluate themselves from a third party perspective–historically through the eyes of men, and more recently through the faux Girl Boss archetype who does all the stuff the male-pleaser used to do but now
Members only Unaltered Beauty campaign by CVS CVS, a pharmacy in the USA, has a campaign for the photos they use in their cosmetics aisle. The Beauty Unaltered initiative is based on the idea that they do not thin, smooth, or digitally alter their cosmetics ads in order to help the mental health of the customers buying
Seeing Women From Space I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character
Reflection on Matrescence and Self-Image It seems there are as many opinions on motherhood as there are people. So when a woman finds herself at the culmination of her maidenhood, teetering on the epoch of matrescence and the irrevocable changes that come, she has heard that parenthood, and more specifically motherhood, is paradoxically both the
Deprogramming Why Does Deprogramming Feel Like Grief? One day you’ll be so at ease in your body that your old mindset will feel like a faint memory.
Deprogramming Deprogramming 101: When will it be enough? Are you going to celebrate one of your features and then erase it next time it goes out of fashion?