Amelia L

“This default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite- de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter less.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“Beauty work is labeled “self-care” to make it sound progressive”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“It's very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually calculating obligation, to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“And the real trick of athleisure is the way it can physically suggest that you were made to do this- that you're the kind of person who thinks that putting in expensive hard work for a high-functioning, maximally attractive consumer existence is about a good a way to pass your time on earth as there is.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion