Jumanah’s Reviews > Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women > Status Update
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"When we pay women to be looked at, we send an important message about what women's bodies are for. We implicitly acknowledge they're decorative. They're passive."
— May 31, 2026 02:37AM
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At heart, I'm a pretty nerdy bookworm. But when I was in that dress, my intellect dissapeared. It wasn't a part of me. It wasn't relevant.
Beyond that, my body became something that existed for other people. It was static, captured again and again in pictures. I was a well-paid statue who knew how to smile. I wasn't the complete human being I wanted to be. There is no real power in that type of passivity.
— May 31, 2026 02:40AM
Beyond that, my body became something that existed for other people. It was static, captured again and again in pictures. I was a well-paid statue who knew how to smile. I wasn't the complete human being I wanted to be. There is no real power in that type of passivity.
