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sexist: women use guns less in suicide because they're worried their corpse won't be attractive not sexist: women avoiding guns in suicide is further evidence of how pervasive and mighty the grip of social pressures on women's appearances. (cont...)

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Tbh, suicide would probably be the only occasion when I _wouldn't_ care how I looked On a serious note, the 'social pressure' type of narrative seems almost insulting because it's like -- has no one actually considered that women like to look a certain way just for themselves?🤦

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I've considered it but find it extremely implausible. Like, if you just delete society from a human's brain you get something unrecognizeable, not a woman who likes wearing blue lipstick 'just for herself.' Everything we signal about ourselves is tied to 'being viewed.'

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Do you mean if you delete society from this point onwards, or as if it never existed?

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both, to different extents. I suspect if you delete society from here on out, we'll have residual effects from the way we want to look, but it'll change a lot over time. If you had a 'wild child raised in woods' then yeah probably wouldn't want to look any particular way.

8:30 PM · Oct 27, 2019

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I mean, in evolutionary sense, I guess you're right. But if I were the only person in the middle of nowhere *and* had memories of how things "used to be", I'd still want to put my make up on because it would make me feel good / elevate my mood / etc.