““Not sure if you have friends that would be up for this. In any case, I want to suggest something. Sometime pool some money together with as many friends as you can. Rent an old beautiful house on a scenic location for a weekend. Make some rules. Everyone must dress up their nicest for two days. Make some meals. Find some recipes. Set it up like Martha Stewart would. Set aside a 2-3 hour block where no one uses there phone. No one watches TV the entire trip. Talk. Tell stories. Take pictures. Play games, board games, sports, swim. Try out some delicious drinks you’ve never made before. Have a campfire and forget the radio, just sing. Bring a record player and just dive right into the the way our grandparents enjoyed life before we became so hooked on social media and electronic devices. I love cooking, I love singing, I love dancing, I love connecting. This has brought me happiness and I wanted to share it.”
women’s appearance is often viewed as existing on a scale from unattractive to attractive, but that’s way too benign a conceptualization. the reality is that we exist on a scale from dehumanized to acceptable. attractiveness is just one of many qualities that a human might have; for us, physical configurations are often matters of life and death. our bodies determine whether we’ll be treated w some degree of basic human decency, or whether we’ll be utterly discarded by the world. meeting the criteria for women’s appearance under patriarchy is not a question of mere attractiveness but of emotional and physical survival
