I just turned on the computer and an ad on my start page has a picture with two faces. One looks like it's Angelina Jollie and the other a woman that look a bit like her but with "thin" lips. "Everyone with thin lips is ugly" the ad said. I think that was the exact phrasing as I returned to it after I checked what I wanted to check and it was gone.
Isn't that disgusting? My first response was anger. I don't have particularly thin lips but what if I had. "How hurtful" I thought. "What a nasty thing to say".
Madison Avenue, the agencies that the capitalist class use to create demand for a product or service they want to sell that wouldn't normally get an echo out there, is doing its job. Like the very profitable removal of varicose vains or the thousands of unnecessary procedures we go through that are a good moneymaker, they first have to have an ideological offensive to convince us we need it. So if you have thin lips youre ugly.
This is comical were it not so tragic. To think of the sh**t Africans had to go through having naturally full lips.
Of course, this happens around us each and every day, and women are particularly good targets. In China they convince them that beautiful is to look European so they have costly eye operations. And look how blacks and others in the US altered their appearance as the appearance of the European ruling class was held up as a paragon of beauty.
It's not that we don't know this goes on and the devastating consequences of it for young people, especially young girls I reckon. But seeing that made me real angry there for a moment. I felt a good healthy class hatred for the bastards that perpetuate it.
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