“We are being manipulated every single day by an industry that rakes in billions while we stand crying over our bathroom scales.”— Megan Jayne Crabbe, amazon.com
“Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them under the concept of luxury!”— Kanye West, youtube.com
“You put on makeup because it's fun, but why is lengthening your eyelashes and painting your lips redder fun, instead of painting your forehead blue and drawing roses on your cheeks? Because that's the beauty standard that the patriarchy has enforced on us... You can still make these choices. We're a…”— calamity, thefinancialdiet.com
“At some point in recent years, the same advertisers that shoved women into darkened corners of shame for not being pretty enough, not being thin enough, not having light enough skin and straight enough hair re-emerged under a sparkly, vamp-red, feminist banner.”— Bree Rody-Mantha, thefinancialdiet.com
“We dress for the jobs we want, forgetting that most salaries are tailored to afford dressing for the jobs we have.”— Gayatri Jayaraman, buzzfeed.com
“I am not wearing makeup because I decided my monolid is beautiful and despite what Disney cartoons have led you to believe, you don’t need long eyelashes to be a woman.”— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com
“Makeup is an oppressive tool that seeks to hide us women, to belittle us and force us to compete with one another.”— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com
“When you raise women to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws, rather than our power and potential;…”— Lindy West, theguardian.com
“The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body. Don’t let fiction tell you what to do. In the omnidirectional orgy gardens of Vlaxnoid, no one cares about your arm flab.”— Lindy West, theguardian.com
“Every time you open your phone or your computer, your brain is walking onto a battleground. The aggressors are the architects of your digital world, and their weapons are the apps, news feeds, and notifications in your field of view every time you look at a screen. They are all attempting to capture…”— Tobias Rose-Stockwell, medium.com
“The real game changer, when you get right down to it, was Starbucks. We're starting to value things. We're willing to spend money on quality.”— Alton Brown, eater.com
“Almost all the things that "millenials are killing" are garbage things with no real value that rely on ignorance and complacency to survive.”— Isaac Marion, twitter.com
“Every anti-millenial article gives me so much life. ‘Millenials are killing Golf!’ Fantastic, lets turn all of those massive bourgeois wastes of space into food forests and bee friendly wildlife areas. ‘Millenials killing shopping malls and department stores!’ Perfect, lets turn those giant idols of…”— kropotkhristian, kropotkhristian.tumblr.com
“Instead of reading ‘Millenials are killing ____ industry!’ as us being stupid, I read them as ‘Millenials are seeing through our bullshit consumerism!”— just-shower-thoughts, just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com
“If you think communism threatens your individuality, it’s because your individuality is so commodified under capitalism you literally can’t envision constructing an identity around anything but participation in capitalism (material possessions, purchases, property, etc.).”— anarchyisfunandfree, 122mg.tumblr.com
“More and more, companies are capitalizing on post-election liberal guilt—using the current political climate as a means to increase monetary gains. With advertisements or socially-minded products, these companies address complex social issues in a superficial way. But more than being tone-deaf, this…”— Allyn Hughes, are.na
“The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-aging moisturizer? You make someone worry about aging. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them wo…”— Matt Haig, amazon.com