me realizing that although i use skincare as a form of self care that i am ultimately doing it in order to achieve the societal ideal that requires women to have young and flawless-looking skin to be considered valuable, and that although there is still value in it, to consider skincare as the ultimate form of self care is just me playing into those same societal structures:
“Of the personality disorders [under neoliberalism], the most common are performance anxiety and social phobia: both of which reflect a fear of other people, who are perceived as both evaluators and competitors – the only roles for society that market fundamentalism admits. Depression and loneliness plague us.”
medranochav 