Can you guys help me choose a filter?
I don't know if I should go with XXPro or Valencia,
I want to look tan.
What should my caption be?
I want it to be clever.
How about 'living with my bitchez, #lip,’
I only got ten likes in the last five minutes,
Do you think I should take it down?
Let me take another #selfie.
Let me take a #selfie.
Musings
One small voice.
We don't talk about beauty anymore. No, do not deny it. You may say, oh this dish looks beautiful or caught up in internalised sexism, comment, oh what a beautiful woman! But, what do we actually mean when we say these things? Beautiful compared to what? Who is to determine what is beautiful? What if I disagree? We enter a minefield. When one talks of beauty, one is immediately bombarded with comments of self-determination and self-opinion and individuality. Therefore, we don't talk about beauty. Yet, somehow, we continue to give it worth.
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