To the girls who think that they have to cover their face to leave the house, to the women who believe that they are only valuable for their looks, for all the humans who feel the need to cover their true self from the world. You are wrong, the society you live in has brought you to your knees and taken every sliver of self worth and unconditional acceptance you were born with. We live in a place where a women that is half man-made is given more worth than graduate student. We have been brainwashed by lip gloss and mascara, we place worth on the physical rather than the intellectual. We create voids with no chance of filling them. Does the fact that a business man cant interact with a homeless person without question bother you? Our perception of appearance is flawed, we can no longer see past the first layer of skin, and our beliefs follow suit. This does not apply to just women, and is not a message to just men. We as a people have dug hole our minds cannot escape, we are forever stuck looking without understanding.
I have always known I was different, never for any solid or specific reason, but in the same way you know that you want something but cant describe why. I looked at the world around me as open and inviting, but as I grew I realized that the world did not grow with me. As I enlarged I could feel the pressures of society creeping in around me. I knew that I would be suffocated by it unless I could push my way through the falsehoods that have clogged our natural path. Ive noticed that the farther from our society I push the happier I become. I used to trap myself with makeup and fashion and an intense need to be something I could never be. I couldnt understand how someone could place so much value on something that could be washed down the sink at the end of the day. There is not one single natural reason for make up. We have no predators, and we are genetically inclined to be attracted to one another. So for women to spend so much effort and time in something we are not naturally meant to do is entirely useless.
`No matter how much we insist that we are confident and strong women, is it really true if the view we have of ourselves is painted over by a physical impossibility? We will never be the girls in magazines because they simply do not exist. We are not the sexual objects that the media would like to lead us to believe. We don’t have to follow their rules. We don’t need to be perfect, we just need to be human.
