hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
'Sexualisation' continues
Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, popular culture increasingly insists on pretending that women are always as hot for it as men are.
A study by Girlguiding UK, released in June, showed that girls as young as 10 are anxious and stressed by the sexualising influence of popular culture.
Walking past a lingerie shop in Carlton I spotted an advertisement that turned my stomach.
"Hot Milk" targets pregnant women with the lie that its brand "celebrates the sensual, sexy woman inside the loving mother".
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Our primarily commercial society operates via either creating or stimulating needs/desires that require (the purchase of) a certain product or service in order to be satisfied.
Sex/beauty/attraction is one area of life in which this practice is really effective, and, increasingly, it's not being restricted simply to women. We're told, or it is 'suggested', in marketing slogans and campaigns, that we are not normal if we don't hot ourselves up in a certain way by wearing this or that, by applying this or that, or by looking like this or that hyper-sexualised (read: narcissistic) gender archetype.
If people put too much stock in the commercial conception of ‘normal’ as narcissistic and hyper-sexual then this can be a breeding ground for insecurity, depression, and anxiety.
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