Beauty
The Worst Anti-Aging “Hacks”: From Anti-Wrinkle Straws To The Morning Shed
Young women have always known they’re on borrowed time when it comes to cultural relevance and sexual power. These are currencies rooted in youth and beauty. By nature, they are fleeting feminine delicacies. In the past, when women had less freedom and autonomy, they were likely badgered more frequently, more bluntly, and with greater urgency about their front-loaded lifetime value.
By Jaimee Marshall5 min read
Now that women have greater independence and legal equality to save them from the necessity of using their youth and beauty as bargaining chips to secure a lifetime of security (as well as preserve bloodlines and forge political alliances), marriage is less crassly regarded as a woman’s only economic proposition to avoid a lifetime of living in squalor.